Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delicious blending of wavy bangs, "Langtry twists," "French knots," "waterfalls" and curls that it has been adopted by a large majority as the college mode, and bids fair to become the rage all over the country. The "average girl" herself bore a striking resemblance to current likenesses of Minerva, though the mouth indicated a decided penchant for caramels and ice cream, and there was a suspicious droop of one eyelid, which showed the sensitiveness of the organ in question when exposed to the light. But can any one imagine Minerva with a decidedly marked pair of eyeglasses...
...enjoying the instruction of the Harvard professors. The reading-room of the "Harvard Annex!" Your fancy, unbidden, suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough for fifty people, and not too much...
...Harvard torchlight parade, like Minerva, appears not to have been a thing of slow development and growth. It was born in full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and a uniform that was unique in political demonstrations...
...that tendency toward study here which exists in the East and in the West. The young women who would have attended the lectures at Columbia, it is to be feared would have been led there by mixed motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they are offered the privilege of a Harvard annex (without, however, the excellent offices of Miss Ticknor to arrange matters), but the masses have not jumped to avail themselves of it.-[N. Y. letter to Traveller...
Harvard is rapidly becoming the national university of the United States. Our alma mater is the Minerva in the Pantheon of American letters. Our own Cambridge suggests its English namesake. The university on the banks of the Cam is one of the glories of England. Its ancient foundations have been enriched with the wealth of the kingdom. The beauty of its lawns, the splendor of its buildings, the extent of its libraries, the richness of its scientific apparatus, and the scenes which the presence of genius has made forever illustrious inspire every intelligent visitor with feelings of profound admiration...