Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Perhaps not," he replied; "but you Harvard Juniors ought to know Greek enough to see the derivation at once...
...answered, with some feeling; "one is not expected to learn any Greek now, you know, until our instructor returns from Greece, having imported the living language with...
...expurgated editions here, and read the lesson entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that...
Wednesday, 19th, Greek 2, Mass...
...Birds" of Aristophanes is announced among the books to be read in Greek 2, next year. The course is a new and interesting one, and will be especially attractive to Juniors; but a large number of the class of '80, who were in the advanced section during their Freshman year, are cut off from taking this elective, for the simple reason that they have already read the play. The suggestion has been made, and it is not a bad one, that some other play of Aristophanes, which none of the present Sophomore class have ever read, be substituted...