Word: minervas
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...Tiber's mud. Long years it held Minerva in embrace...
...Tiber's muddy banks have yielded up a colossal statue of Minerva. It was discovered by workmen on the site of the old Emporium which was a landing place for marbles shipped from Greece to Imperial Rome. Antiquaries declare that the statue might have been dropped into the mud by Roman stevedores...
...Minerva, seated, is carved from colored alabaster in the most exquisite Hellenistic manner...
...this Minerva now belongs half to Italy's Government and half to the owner of the land...
Wisdom comes to Seniors by devious paths, however, and though so few would, even if they had the choice again yield the apple to Minerva, the traditional vote for Phi Beta Kappa is extremely rational. One comes to college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why then, Phi Beta Kappa is the mark of success in curricular pursuits--and most to be desired. Unfortunately, the hypothesis that the curriculum in itself constitutes education is the weak link in the chain of this logic; for it is too obvious that the curriculum is but a part very...