Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...days, if a young man has been brilliant in his studies, or even if he has obtained some prize for a Latin poem or Greek theme, it is enough to make him persuade himself that he is born for something other than business or industry of any kind. In this the University is at one with the spirit of the clergy. Both have very little that is practical. Professors and priests have leisure to plunge into the delightful study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Accordingly, their tastes and their profession lead them to recommend classical studies. The moment that they...
...notorious kings of Egypt, vich caused the death of several 'undred thousand people, - Jews and others, - for to build them, all for their own selfish plans, which was wrong. Upon the extreme right notice the ferocious charge of the abandoned and in every way profligate Mamelukes, - derived from two Greek works, mammy, mamy, and look, look, - so called because ven young and left by the mothers, who goes a verkin' for the day, ven they sees them a comin' home, they cries, "Mammy, look!" - mamy, look, - hence called Mammylukes. Likevise, in the centre the piles of dying; in the foreground...
...Italian, 6 Greek, and 5 Phil. (ethics) call...
...while Greek 4 in U. 16 is done...
...Greek day, - the Freshmen again...