"Quad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tell their College Porters Not to think it strange or odd When a load of bricks and mortar's Dumped within the College quad; No indignant Tutor hauls Him who scales the College walls,— Plying on ...
— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley
... quadrangle is the show part of the college, and is generally respectable and quiet, which is a good deal more than can be said for the inner quadrangle, which you get at through a passage leading out of the other. The rooms ain't half so large or good in the inner quad; and here's where all we freshmen live, besides a lot of the older undergraduates who don't care to change their rooms. Only one tutor has rooms here; and I should think, if he's a reading man, it won't be long before he clears out; for all sorts of high jinks go on on the grass-plot, ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... to be stolen from her with a noiseless hand. At All Souls' College, Oxford, in the first quadrangle, grave, thoughtful men raised to the top story, two hundred years ago, a grand sundial, the largest, perhaps, and noblest in the kingdom. They set it on the face of the Quad, and wrote over the long pointer in large letters of gold, these words, "Pereunt et imputantur," which refer to the hours indicated below, and mean literally, "They perish, and go down to our account;" but really imply a little more, viz., that "they are wasted, and go to our ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... many times. It was a beautiful song, and it awakened in the memories of the listening lads thoughts of the gay times at college, the moonlight nights, the roistering lads, the lighted windows of the Quad and the ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... the hour of ten has struck, the procession of academic dignity may be seen approaching across the Quad, the Vice-Chancellor preceded by his staves as the symbol of authority, the Proctors in their velvet sleeves and miniver hoods, and the Registrar (or Secretary) of ...
— The Oxford Degree Ceremony • Joseph Wells
... I tell you something must be done;—we must act; just let me ring the bell, and send the men word that I'll speak to them in the quad." ...
— The Warden • Anthony Trollope
... on the polar side of that Houston quad and if you are any account, I'll give you a job ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady |
