Word: tempora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alcoholics and that the conduct of alumni was no affair of the President of Yale, Dr. Angell had been charged by a fanatical Pennsylvania alumnus with conniving at a "conspiracy in the class of '95 to violate the Eighteenth Amendment and flout the Constitution." "O! tempora," commented a Yale alumnus who had studied Latin, "Oh ! Mory...
...revert to athletics, look at our magnificent, record against Yale during the past year. Harvard won a relay race, and a chess match, and that's about all. Now they have snatched the hockey championship from under our very noses. O tempora! O Moses! Can such things be? We might at least have gotten Tad Jones and a couple of athletes in exchange for Professor Baker. G. T. Chase...
...vitalized system of Senior Advisers is not the only sign that times are changed. But fortunately the character of most of the changes is very unlikely to provoke the Ciceronian cry of "O tempora! O mores!" The hours for afternoon classes, the extension of the Dean's List, the requirements for promotion...
...evening with Mr. William Shakespeare. Feeling serenely confident of the lowness of brow of people generally, he was staggered to find an unbroken line of citizens reaching from the ticket office out onto Huntington avenue. His reflections on leaving the theatre were somewhat mixed, but the muttered exclamation, "O Tempora, O Mores!" was one of them. The ejaculation has expressed the disgusted perplexity of people more often than Cicero ever used it himself, and the question, "What are we coming to?" together with the upward shrug of the shoulders, is still unanswered...
...tempted to distort this small offense into a sign of the world's decay, and to philosophize thereon--"O tempora! O mores!" But let it suffice to point out why the slight on Widener especially is deplorable. The Library stands as a memorial, the cenotaph of a young scholar and enthusiast of books. By this simple yet significant act, the uncovering of the head, we pay our humble respect to his memory...