Smith College/traditions

Famous quotes containing the words smith, college and/or traditions:

    “Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow:

    It was like feasting upon air.”
    —William Jay Smith (b. 1918)

    “A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)