Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...That epoch is within the memory of the oldest cadet--although it is now passed away by three weeks and more of secular eternities--when nine o'clock was the dawning hour of the day, and the sun, the student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers...
...year 1816 does, however, mark an important epoch in the history of theological education in Cambridge and the beginning of a new era, for in that year the Divinity School was definitely distinguished from the College, though the Divinity Faculty was not formally organized until 1819. On February 3, 1816, a committee appointed by the corporation issued an appeal for subscriptions for the extension of the means of theological education in Cambridge. The letter states that the President of the University has officially declared that "neither the object nor the consequence, 'of enlarging the theological funds of the University...
...understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative of the epoch-making events now occurring in Europe without knowing or caring what it meant, is most appalling, for it shows that they have not yet learned how to read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only...
...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...