Word: epigrams
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...program for the occasion, on four broad pages, is of course entirely in Latin. On the front page, below the seal of the University, is an epigram in heavy Roman type, announcing that the performance is in honor of our fathers, the "embattled farmers...
...rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...
...carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well; and I say it because that system has been 'weighed in the balance and found wanting.' It is no epigram, but a simple fact, to say that classical education neglects all the powers of some minds, and some of the powers of all minds. In the case of the few it has a balue which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in irremediable waste...
...author had shown some practical acquaintance with his subject, his arguments would have been more convincing; and if he proposes to pursue the matter further, we should suggest a visit to some locality where facilities for the observation of theatrical affairs are afforded. - An amusing attempt at epigram occurs in the same paper. Some youth, in the enthusiasm consequent upon introduction to the first principles of mechanics, has been struck with the idea that "human life is an effect, the resultant of forces acting from within and without...