Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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JUVENAL, Sat. VI., line 160. Et vetus indulget senibus dementia porcis. The words indulget senibus porcis are usually translated "grants long life to pigs." A new meaning, however, was put upon them by a Junior in a late recitation, who read the line as follows: "And ancient clemency indulges the old men with pork." These two renderings might seem incompatible, were it not for the explanation of the scholiast, who comes to the rescue, as usual, and tells us that although the old pigs were spared, the young ones were invariably eaten...
...spent in recording his own life-long observations, which are not yet on record, he will personally superintend one department. A vessel has been cruising to obtain specimens, which will be given to the student, but not, however, the Professor says, until he has learned to spell and read in Natural History; many of them being so rare that they could be replaced only with great difficulty...
...Clara College, differs in many respects from the other exchanges of the Magenta. We have before us the September number, and, as some of the articles read like the productions of very youthful writers, we must be careful to treat it gently...
...Cornell Era. has an article entitled "A Plea for Literary Culture," in which the author has succeeded in giving some very good advice, as far as it goes, and some suggestions which may prove useful to those who have not read them more than sixty or seventy times before. But what we object to in the article is the very narrow view which the writer takes of culture. Were it not that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high...
What difficulties the Company had to encounter at Springfield, and with what energy they pushed their scheme forward, must be apparent to all who have read the Old and New, of October, or the Globe for June 9. To the pioneers in this novel scheme the College owes hearty thanks for having kept alive the old prestige of Harvard's independence and indomitable pluck; for it must be remembered that the operators were unassisted by any other college...