Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman," I shall here offer a piece of advice to the receptive minds of the members of that class. Gentle Freshman, be not afraid of the examiner, for he is not as terrible as he looks. You know that you will not be called up in your Greek to-day, for it was only yesterday that you made such frightful work of it. Brown, Smith, and Jones - specimen bricks, pride of the instructor's heart, who have read up all their Grote - will be the unlucky ones...
About her in Homeric Greek...
...Candidates for admission to the Freshman class, coming from one of twenty-one schools (among which are Williston, Exeter, Boston Latin, Andover, Adams, and Cambridge High School), are now admitted in Latin and Greek without examination...
...Amherst has added Greek Prose Composition and French Grammar to her admission requirements...
...upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle have not in some strange manner been merged into one, and are standing before you." He goes into English I. and hears "the learned comments of the fat professor"; does up Memorial Hall, and departs, to criticise other "institutions of learning...