Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COULD the Swan of Mantua visit Cambridge, he would have occasion to remark, in the words of the dog's-meat man, "Times is changed." Although the professors love their disciples, no doubt, as truly as did any pedagogue on the banks of the Po, we are no longer such a necessity to them during the dog-days as their mothers' milk, although in these days of Ridge's "Food for Infants" and competitive examinations for women, this article has gone sadly out of fashion. Any true advocate of progress would blush to remember that he had ever been aught...
...arrangement of the "reception-room." This room is twenty-eight feet long, and contains sleeping accommodations for forty. Thus each artist must rest from his professional labors in a space about eight inches in breadth by eight and one half feet in length. They must be very unlike the dog in the riddle, who was let out at night and taken in in the morning...
...Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
...Soft Electives in the Gallery." I entered, and saw booths arranged along both sides of a huge hall. There was one representing a Greek house; within were seen various groups in Greek costume; in one corner Homer addressing a band of chosen heroes; in another sat Ulysses with his dog; while Xenophon was telling his dream to a few half-starved soldiers. In the centre, the three great writers of Greek tragedy had joined hands in a mystic choral dance, while Aristophanes stood at one side, making faces at them...
...advantage. We have a capital country about here for the sport, and nothing is better fun, in an athletic way. Men training for the crews would find it good exercise, and it certainly is more amusing than plodding up to Porter's or around Fresh Pond in a dog-trot. A large number of men might be found who would take pleasure in, and derive much benefit from, an hour or so's running (and walking) after two good hares, who chose their ground well. Can't the H. A. A. organize something of the sort...