Word: fading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of this opening speech the orator addressed the classes individually, but in this year of '65 he launched his boldest flight in welcoming the fairer part of the audience when he said: "Oh tenerae virgines graciles formosae: may the smiles never leave vestros lipsos; may the roses numquam fade ex vestris checkibus nec your bonnets numquam be larger nec your flouncibus be less...
...more day of trial and then the whole college will breath a sigh of relief at the thought that the examinations have vanished from the face of the earth. For a space of four months gradually the thought of blue-books and of misery will fade from men's minds and leave them fresh to encounter the Finals...
...famous one horse shay," sending the heels of the occupant high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them go to pieces, part by part, like an old wreck; first the arms, then the back, and finally one by one the legs fade away. Some of these noble old chairs are ruthlessly pulled apart by wanton freshmen, who in no wise regard antiquities, being so recent themselves...
...interest and enthusiasm in athletics than in anything else is not at all surprising. For their athletic successes are achieved during connection with the college; but those other and higher successes in life, successes of mind and intellect, are not really achieved until years after graduation. With graduation, athletics fade away for the most part from the student's memory; but the intellectual life seems then to have only just begun. Harvard past is famous not for her athletic achievements, but for the deeds of her great thinkers and writers. And Harvard present, when it is past, will be likewise...
Long, long ago, before the glory of Greece and Rome had begun to fade, there lived in the oriental city of Harvardium a body of wise and venerable men. It was their duty to exercise a protective care over the people, as well as to act on all public measures conjointly with another somewhat numerous but equally learned body...