Word: occasionem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lowell may be smaller than most House libraries, with a mere three modestly sized tables. But it is still one of the most elegant River House libraries on campus. A wood panel engraving of the Lowell shield—the hand seizing the arrows, encapsulating the motto occasionem cognosce (seize the moment)—gazes on studious Lowellians. The selection of literature on the bottom floor celebrates a special focus on obscure English literature that no one reads anymore (a defect present in many other River House libraries, including Winthrop...
...itself as an idea, a little like the theories of Harvard that are true but seem somewhat abstract. Harvard's just been around so long that it's relatively easy to think about it as solid, consistent and unchanging. The plaque on the Lowell belltower may say Cognosce Occasionem--like the "Seize the time" Black Panther sympathizers used to scrawl on black boards in high school--but Harvard seems so much less transient than any high school, and its walls so far removed from the prisons where the government used to throw the Panthers, that the plaque hardly has much...
...head tutor has nonchalantly spoken of the former as: "Sable, three blunted darts, one in pale and two in saltire, held in a hand couped at the wrist, all in argent. Crest, a stag's head caboosed, or with a pheon azure between the attires. Motto, Occasionem Cogosce...
...motto "Occasionem Cognosce," which is inscribed above the main gate of Lowell House at Cambridge, will serve as an adequate and fitting memorial to the foresight of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell in undertaking the establishment of the Harvard house plan, the most significant of the achievements of a brilliant academic career. For President Lowell has never more surely seen his opportunity and acted upon it than when he enlisted the sympathies and generosity of Edward S. Harkness...
BOSTONIAE sunt duo medici - non medici similia morbis adhibentes remedia, sed discipuli Aesculapii veri - Germani, viri optimi, probi atque honesti, artis peritissimi medicinae, quorum alterum Doctorem A., alterum Doctorem B., nominabimus. Licet ambo sint scurrae, tamen Doctor A. Doctori B. praestat. Infeliciter alter alteri invidet, neque alter occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit...
| 1 |