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...bottomless whirlpool, the 'hellespontiac' current of the waters and the boulders against which my head would surely be dashed. . . . Just then the spray lifted my glasses off my nose, thank goodness, for then at least my eyes would have a chance to hold the pennies to pay Charon. . . . [Then I learned] that St. Peter had rejected me, for I was on the surface again and being rushed with the current...
...such an hour the curious architecture of University Hall assumes a terrible significance; its resemblance to a ferry-boat has now a gruesome appropriateness. We now know that it was intended to symbolize the barge of Charon carrying its freight from shore to shore. We are too dejected even to mutter maledictions on the head of the architect possessed of this ghastly sense of humor. It is all rather...
...Charon of the mighty Charles' flow...
...Named after beauteous Miss Leticia Smith, daughter of a onetime British vice consul at Iquitos, by her lovelorn Peruvian admirer, Engineer Charon. When Engineer Charon returned from founding Leticia he was vexed to find that Miss Smith had married an Englishman, removed to Mexico...
...manner of Weld. While the Venetian aspect of its quadrangle on a rainy day serves admirably to shut out the less aquatic visitors, it is distressing that the Mayflower descendants should have to wade ashore. Fortunately the basement affords a dry route to the dining Hall, but the janitor Charon might find some other means of getting the students dry shod across the flood...