Word: pindaric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cart and donkey twenty minutes from here and you're at one of the largest ancient Greek Theatres where Pindar read his poetry, Aeschylus gave the first performance of one of his plays and Plato mused and looked at the sea. And wasn't Archimedes a son of Syracuse? And didn't Simonides and Epichamos and Bacchylides grace the city with their presence...
...goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus Anadyomene, and bask in the memory of Plato, Pindar and Aeschylus...
...spring of 1833, Peter Pindar Pease of Vermont joggled west in an ox-cart with his wife and five children to become the first settler in Oberlin, Ohio, where a group of missionaries to the Choctaws had staked out 500 acres for a town and college. The town of Oberlin celebrated the centennial of Peter Pindar Pease's arrival four years ago. Oberlin College, which in 1837 admitted U. S. women to a degree-granting institution for the first time, intends to celebrate this year the centennial of U. S. higher education for women. Last week it began...
...certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets: a man in whom Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame...
Last week began celebrations of town & gown centenaries. In Oberlin's Public Square 5,000 people watched Peter Pindar Pease (impersonated by Townsman John W. Hill) drive up with his yoke of black oxen and his wife (Ruth Pease, descendant) and his five children. Pioneer Pease gazed with feigned amazement at the modern college campus, where a replica of the original cabin had been built. Bands played. School children marched. Memorial trees were planted, in honor of the founders and of Pastor Oberlin. Virginia Richardson, 16, recited a history of Oberlin. So feelingly had she written this, winning...