Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discipline into plain living and high thinking are those engaged in the work of teaching; we make that calling as unattractive to men of ability as possible. An able professor, with a family, screwed down to $4,000 or $5,000 a year, and surrounded by undergraduates living in splendor and luxury, may be pardoned if he sighs when he thinks of the position of the learned in Germany. [Nation...
...with characteristic modesty refrains from even hinting at a solution. As we can readily conceive the burden under which the directors are laboring, we offer for their consideration sundry suggestions, the adoption of which, we have no doubt, will render Memorial Hall an institution of still greater worth and splendor...
...Minerva in the Pantheon of American letters. Our own Cambridge suggests its English namesake. The university on the banks of the Cam is one of the glories of England. Its ancient foundations have been enriched with the wealth of the kingdom. The beauty of its lawns, the splendor of its buildings, the extent of its libraries, the richness of its scientific apparatus, and the scenes which the presence of genius has made forever illustrious inspire every intelligent visitor with feelings of profound admiration. The University of Cambridge, with all its resources of material equipment and liberal discipline...
...silver moon rises in splendor...
...some sea-morning's splendor of gold...