Word: romanticisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they...
The origins of our tacky celebrations apparently derive not from the martyr but from one of two other sources. Historians place the Roman festival of Lupercalia in the middle of February and suggest that a pagan bacchanal might have developed over the course of centuries into our tamer celebration of...
Pending the results of an Undergraduate Council committee meeting, the 809 students who filed Valentine's Datamatch forms will learn their romantic fates today or tomosrrow.
Students also downplayed the seriousness of the Datamatch, saying they viewed the questions on which their romantic futures hinge as more humorous than insightful.
One student cited a unusual reason for taking part in the romantic roulette.