Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title page of each manuscript must be signed with a motto or an assumed name, the same to be written on the envelope of a sealed letter in which is enclosed the name and address of the competitor. The prize composition will be performed in the College Chapel, with chorus and organ. The compositions must be presented to the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Arthur Foote, 81 Green street, Brookline, on or before March...
...second class of offender may well be termed a book "hog"--an individual whose motto seems to be "Education at any price". After stating on the receipt filled out at the reading room desk that he will sit at a certain table, such a person deliberately goes else where so that when the time limit of one hour is up, he can continue to use the book unmolested, although others are waiting. Such action can not be excused on the grounds of carelessness or ignorance; it is taken for granted that students can read the few simple library rules that...
...duel a day no insurance to pay" has accordingly become the national motto. A prominent politician, following a speech in the Diet, may expect to receive not less than half a dozen challenges from the leaders of the opposition. As the challenger always pays the expenses, the person challenged usually arranges his acceptances in order of the social standing of his adversary, it being considered a bit ulcer to be killed by a former Viscount than by a mere Captain of Hussars. Rival store-keepers now settle their differences with sword and pistol rather than by cutthroat competition. Most important...
Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...
...should like to avail myself of your columns for a few remarks on the new sheet, The Aristocrat. First of all let me suggest a more fitting motto: There is no god but classicism and Irving Babbitt is its prophet. For the editors might at least have been gracious enough to acknowledge those statements more obviously taken over from Professor Babbitt's writings and lectures...