Word: classics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...first number of the University Cynic, published by students of the University of Vermont, has appeared. The paper is by no means so forbidding as its name, which, we are informed, is chosen solely on classic principles...
...fund of classic knowledge...
...preparatory schools outside of the Eastern States, and it is consequently very difficult for those living in other States to get a proper fitting for admittance to Harvard. It is therefore a matter of decided congratulation when a school to be preparatory for Harvard is established outside the classic ground of New England, as we are informed has been done recently in the city of Wilkesbarre in Pennsylvania. An academy has there just been endowed by a gentleman of that city with $20,000 besides grounds and buildings. The school starts out with the intention of being a thorough Harvard...
...that a number of Harvard students are incapable of translating a Greek or Latin sentence, which requires more than the most elementary knowledge of the languages, after their freshman year. In Oxford this is not the case. Greek and Latin are kept up by the student until the classic works are as familiar to him as are the productions of his own countrymen. Oxford men quote ancient languages in their daily conversation. The reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier...