Word: grecian
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...lecture comparing modern and Grecian athletics takes place today at 12 o'clock, at Sever...
...equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees him as surely as President Barnard knows a hawk from a handsaw, and when he wants anything in the Greek line he orders it from Illinois...
...house was at the foot of a mountain, built of rough logs (that is, the house, not the mountain), and plainly finished in the Grecian style of architecture. Within were three apartments, two bedrooms and a parlor, in which latter room we did our cooking. I had purchased a gas-stove in San Francisco. This room had two windows, and between was a place just large enough for my Chickering grand, - a pleasant surprise from papa upon our arrival. We had no neighbors within twelve miles. Our one servant was a converted Indian. Instead of scalping after the ordinary manner...
...doubt many of those who have not been to college suppose that there is an influence exerted by the professors at Harvard, aside from recitations, in a social way. We read in Grecian history of the intimacy between Socrates or Aristotle and their disciples. They lived together, and the young men drank in from this friendship, not only the technical teaching of their masters, but they also saw their precepts put in practice. A man was known by the school that he had attended, and carried the example of that school into his actions in after life. The same...
After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty...