Word: classics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present classic condition of Irish society is shown by the following from a Dublin paper: "Lost, a cameo brooch, representing Venus and Adonis while walking in Sandymount (near Dublin) on Sunday last...
...midst of the noise and bustle of the town of Oxford, and within a stones throw of the classic Isis stands Magdalen College, if not the oldest, at least one of the most celebrated colleges of the "town of learning." The view of the college from the High street on which it stands is disappointing, and it is only on walking out upon the bridge over the river that the beauty of the buildings appears. The most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround...
...literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with toil seemed to come to him by intuition, and many...
...right to award the degree of A. B. to graduates who had elected Greek. If these graduates should receive the degree of Bachelor of Science it would meet this objection, but it is not probable that they would be satisfied with such an arrangement. The experiment of conducting a classic course and a scientific course was tried for ten years in the University at Barlin, and the results carefully observed; but although the students were of equal ability, the trial showed that the men who took the scientific course did not rank so high as the others. The decision...
...speech before the Yale alumni in New York, on Saturday, Hon. Wm. M. Evarts regarded coldly the liberal education as compared with the classic, and said with emphasis: "We'll stand by our college while it stands by Greek and Latin," a sentiment which was received with applause...