Word: pindaric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years ago last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December...
...From John Sandys' translation of the Greek Poet Pindar's Isthmian Odes...
...skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch's for his model. What conversation he heard would be unintelligible to him, for these men spoke of business not in volatile Italian but in the old tongue of Pindar and Plato...
...most important of the first editions are "Paradise Lost," published in 1637, "Lycidas," in 1638, and a copy of "Comus," belonging to the owner of Ludlow castle, where the masque was first performed. There is also a copy of "Pindar," owned by John Milton and bearing notes written by him in the margins...