Word: epochal
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...Senior wears his sister's insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty is one of the oldest traditions of Harvard, it is time for a protest in the name of our motto. There was a remote epoch in which academic dress was regularly and correctly worn, but throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century the Harvard Senior wore ordinary clothes on all occasions except Class Day, when he appeared in a dress suit and high hat. He wore his dress suit all day, and consequently looked...
...will be Elizabethan nobles, while the pit, or what is generally known as the floor, of Sanders Theatre will be occupied by Elizabethan spectators. A strip of "sky" has been painted along the top of Sanders Theatre to render the Elizabethan illusion more perfect, for a theatre of that epoch had no roof above the central portion, the only covering being over the stage and the galleries...
...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...
...this new institution develops into such a shop as Dobbell's in London, or Blackwell's at Oxford, its founding will mark a veritable epoch in Yale life. It has a convenient location and the shop is itself attractive. This augurs well for its future and its aim is to have something for everyone: books in fine bindings, first editions, books illustrated by famous artists, Americana, books about Yale and by Yale graduates, old-time literature, prints and original drawings...
...Cornell the University team met a tartar, the first encountered in the Stadium since 1911. An off-day for Captain Mahan, in itself a noteworthy epoch, coupled with the uncanny alertness of the Ithacans, was enough to give Cornell the 10 to 0 victory. A fumble at the very start, when the University men had not yet become accustomed to their opponents' style of play, gave Cornell the opportunity, and a short series of impressive smashes through a surprised Crim- son line gave the visitors a lead to which Shiverick later added with a pretty drop-kick. More fumbling...