Word: homer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...frightened freshmen were allowed to dress and were then hustled into a carriage and driven rapidly away. They were told they would be killed if they made any outcry, but if they kept quiet no harm would come to them. The party were driven to the village of Homer, where they were placed on the cars for Syracuse, accompanied by two sophomores, L. B. Ingalls and H. P. Deforrest. On arriving at Syracuse, the four students were arrested and confined in the police station. Last night they were taken back to Ithaca by an officer. The authorities of the university...
...Carl's to their Homer...
Welcome indeed to our ears were the sounds of the language of Homer...
...Homer of old would have stated...
...held accountable? Can it be that there do not present themselves, in Latin literature, works of a nature to be entertaining to a popular audience? Surely no devotee of Latin would acknowledge its narrowness to be of so alarming a character. Would listeners who crowd to hear Sophocles and Homer find no attractions in Lucretius and Virgil? Would those who take a rollicking delight in Aristophanes, fail to respond to Plautus...