Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...executed and completed by the physical efforts of many, into a glorious edifice. See this spacious hall, those eastward-looking wings, and a dome more lofty and resplendent than that which looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief on the front of this column-supported vestibule; there, forgetful of the tennis-court, rests the well-proportioned athlete, whose contour indicates that Greek repose which our multiplex university studies make almost impossible in modern...
...thine earliest symbol be thy last...
...shingles" have appeared of late on University, - that of the C. T. Co., challenging every one's attention with its representation of their implement of torture; and also that of the French Club, which has taken the symbol of eternity for its crest; so we suppose it is superfluous to wish it a long and successful career...
WITH whom the idea of a "Collegiate spectrum" first originated could hardly be ascertained now; but it seems the most natural thing in the world for a college, like other associations of men, to choose a color or colors to be the symbol of its individuality and of a friendly rivalry with other colleges. The custom has been undoubtedly borrowed from the English Universities, and was probably at once adopted by all our prominent colleges, as soon as one of them had set the example. And is it not about time that it should be definitely settled what rays...