Word: minerva
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...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...
...present Harvard junior once remarked to us in all seriousness, 'that three-fourths of all the smart men in the country came from Harvard.' Shades of Minerva preserve us ere we fall! 'What shall we do to be saved! Perhaps we have been unfortunate, and run across the worst element of Harvard; at any rate, the above represents the tone and spirit of all our Harvard acquaintances. We might go on, but will not, for we have probably fallen into the ridiculous in speaking of the ridiculousness of others...