Word: pompey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number contains several very good bits of verse. The light poem of Mr. Frothingham, '84, though somewhat long and careless, is perhaps the best of its kind. In a serious tone Mr. Lord's sonnet on the Grave of Pompey, and the stanzas of Rev. T. C. Pease, '75 called The Songless Singer are most noteworthy. Although the theme of the latter is by no means new, yet its smoothness of lines, and depth of feeling make it the best in the issue. Its fault is possibly lack of compactness...
...scene of the contest; but old Jarvis had undergone a great transformation since the days of Eliot the First. A soft, closely cropped turf covered the broad field, and on either side were lofty grand stands, equalled in beauty of architecture only by the ancient amphitheatre of Pompey. Everything indicated that Harvard had recovered from that dread disease, impecunia...
...pocketful of change, and if one had occasion to carry five dollars' worth of as's about a horse and team would be almost a necessity. In an historical light, also, this collection is very interesting. There are coins struck in honor of Sulla, of Brutus and of Pompey. One of the copper coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today is, the collection would be poorer...
Dost thou not, Pompey, take it much amiss...