Word: martial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Davison has selected the three songs to be sung by the clubs at the Freshman Jubilee; Gore Hall will sing "The Anvil Chorus," by Verdi; Smith Halls, "The Soldiers Chorus," from Goethe's "Faust"; and Standish Hall, "The Martial Hymn," by A. C. Gomes...
...Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...
...times there comes a feeling that perhaps the thing is a trifle overdone. The undergraduate departed last summer, thanking Providence and the benefactors of the University that at last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme...
...reminded that as loyal sons of 1915 they are not to forget to reserve Thursday evening of this week for the annual celebration known as the Senior Junket. The class will form in line early in the evening and in ranks of thirteen will march in martial array to Soldiers Field where a program of unparalleled interest and entertainment will take place. The evening will be spent in various novel amusements and Seniors who fail to appear will surely regret...
...Longing" by E. E. Cummings we have a poet's description of sunrise, noon, sunset and night written in a martial strain...