Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...secret societies. Of these nobody knows anything, and the very mention of their name is an indiscretion which may produce the most direful results. In point of fact, I don't think that there are many of them, and I am sure that the members are not the deep-dyed villains which their enemies would have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen...
...racing raised above the level of street-fights, we must turn a deaf ear to such braggadocio messages as this one from Cornell. The spirit displayed by this invitation to row "in case we win the race with Yale" is the spirit of the prize-ring. There is a deep-seated feeling in the breasts of every one to see our crew row with a crew from Cornell and win the race. But self-respect is not to be lost even for the sake of hurting the yell of the Ithacan College. As long as challenges such as those sent...
Though lonely his lot, and his troubles deep...
...occupants of the various dormitories would be, in case of serious fire at night, roasted with as much neatness and despatch as the most ardent advocate of cremation could wish. Locked in their rooms, and in deep sleep, they could only be aroused to find escape impossible; the entries and stairways would act as most efficient chimneys, and the draught through them would draw the flames up from story to story with the utmost rapidity, effectually closing the only means of escape...
...deep vale the echoing terrors roared...