Word: spartanic
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...with the white walls makes a very neat contrast. In the basement are six rooms for the janitor's use, where he will live. Hot and cold water, stationary book-cases and cherry finishings are luxuries for which the students of Harvard sigh, but sigh in vain. A Spartan lot is ours...
...adopted at Harvard, if we did not feel that it would be too great an indignity to put upon that exalted class of beings to so much as suggest that janitors should be held obedient to a summons of that sort. Life at Harvard, moreover, is but a Spartan exercise in self-denying virtues, and such effeminacies should not be tolerated...
...stained-glass windows given by the class of 1857 are now being put up in Memorial. On one is Epaminondas, and underneath, the Spartan mother giving the shield to her son. On the other is Sir Philip Sidney, and beneath, the scene at the battle of Zutphen, where that knight gives the wounded soldier his own cup of water...
...inscriptions, - the one in the Sidney window, by the representation of the death of Sir Philip, and the incident of his giving the cup of water to a wounded soldier, probably with the inscription, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine"; and the other, by the picture of the Spartan matron giving the shield to her son, while for an inscription, either on the shield or above the picture, her words may be placed, H tautav n eti tauta. In the trefoil over the two parts of the window is to be the inscription, "The Class...
...Fresh Pond is examined in the same manner we hope, for the peace of those about us who are in the habit of drinking water (as some are), that the results will not be published. It is not enough that the famished Commoner, as he sits down to his Spartan repast, should have his senses of smell, taste, and hearing shocked by his food and "table-talk," but, as he raises the goblet to his lips, he must see myriads of animals swimming in the water. Thus is the fate of Tantalus added to the horrors of Commons. Some...