Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew will probably row in their new shell on Saturday, as it is now completed. This shell is of an entirely new model, shaped somewhat like a cigar, with a broad stern. This is to prevent the boat from settling at the stern, at the end of the stroke...
Last evening in Harvard 1 Mr. E. P. Morris of Yale University gave an instructive lecture under the auspices of the Classical Club. His subject was "A Latin Poet and his Greek Model." Professor White wittily introduced Mr. Morris, saying that the theological disputes of former times between Harvard and Yale had in the lapse of years developed into an "odium athleticum periculissimum," but notwithstanding this, the relations between the Yale Classical Club and the Harvard Classical Club had always been most friendly...
Granted that the Latin poet depended upon a Greek model, it is next necessary to ascertain just to what degree the former imitated the latter. Until lately the investigation on this subject has been narrow, because the interest has been purely historical. Some authorities say that Plautus was simply a translator and an imitator, while others maintain that he treated his models with great freedom and originality. The latter opinion is probably more just, for the passage of plots from one author to another is permissible and common in the history of literature...
...SALE. - Victor Bicycle, 1894 model, bought about July 1; cost $125, will sell for $65. Address, "A B C," care of CRIMSON...
Classical Club. A Latin Poet and his Greek Model. Professor E. P. Morris, of Yale University. Harvard...