Word: sat
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...SPECIAL Artists" connected with Frank Leslie's and the Harper's illustrated Magazines, have been about the College grounds for the past few days, sketching the Museum, and the chair in which Agassiz sat, Appleton Chapel...
...Kitty sat together...
Dick and Jennie sat together...
...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...
...beginning at the western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush and machine-like movement of the actual race. What they must...