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Nunc demum ver et Plautus adest; fons ardoris omnia irrigat. Qui modo adulescentes sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

...Eheu, Postume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...Eheu, these are sorry times indeed when the nitred vaults for lack of love must be thrown open and the choicest vintage blazoned on bill boards. But perhaps before the exquisite measures of learned Flaccus die completely from the ears of men, there will be a new Renaissance which will save the attic treasures without resort to abasing vulgarity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUHOE, BACCHUS | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

...they did become something equally disturbing to quiet Waiworth; to the respectable Joneses, the Murchthaws, the Quoggses, Inchlings and Updegroves. But not before Mrs. Amy Potter joined them-the new housekeeper, a comely, cheery body from Maryland's Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Harvard ! Scholasticus non bustibus, sed defalcatione tuam. Eheu ! religione cashieri dum crankibus et speculatione scripsit. Monstrum horrendum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

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