Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President G. C. Felton, has recently been put in place in Sanders Theatre. It is set in the middle window opposite the stage, where its simplicity and the strength of its lines and color-masses command attention from all parts of the theatre. The subject is a figure of Minerva decorating a column with a memorial fillet of purple and gold...
...Minerva's role is the color of wine less with strong high lights almost white on the back and on certain main folds. Her sandals are golden, as is all that can be seen of the aegis which she wears on her breast. The platform on which the figure stands is opalescent white, while the column has a golden tone, shot with green. In size, the window is seven feet seven inches high and five feet wide. On the front of the platform is the simple statement, "In memory of G. C. Felton...
...first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus, the Romans erected a temple to Minerva upon all. To do this they levelled the top of the hill and dug deep into the ruins for foundations...
...tradition now. Harvard is simply a training school for the sons of the rich, a place where wealth is honored and glorified, where the rich man's son is taught his own importance and the dignity of his money bags. Harvard can best be typified as the goddess Minerva trotting around the town with a collection box in her hand; she has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North...
...comedian's light comic operatic successes, is laid in a charming country village in New England. The jovial "Dr. Syntax" esteems it his duty to make everybody happy, and, luckily for his protegees, his opportunities to carry out this benevolent plan are many, for the young lady pupils of Minerva Academy - in which he is an instructor - are all in love with the young men in a neighboring college, and the principal of the seminary - an elderly maiden named Zenobia Tropics - very naturally does not approve of moonlight strolls and the customary flirtations usually indulged in by boarding-school misses...