Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...March 15. The probabilities are that the non-collegiate amateur races (which undergraduates may compete in if they wish) will extend through the three days immediately following the day of the college races, and will be contested by oarsmen "representing all the prominent rowing clubs from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, from Massachusetts to Michigan...
...most remote parts of Asia." He built up Neophogen until now "she shines with glittering magnificence to the far distant Cumberland, and is the very goal of human perfection. Her little world of literature, the College Pen, makes her a familiar byword from the Canadian Lakes to the tumultuous Gulf of Mexico." "In a few more years our College, we trust, will cope with Bethany or the University of Virginia...
...classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass"; and then he paints quite a vivid picture, which I think the fair Bostonian novel-reader would hardly recognize as herself: "A weary, distressed, bewildered voyager amid the billows of affliction, she looks around her in vain to find a pilot, a pole...
...threads the gulf of doubting and despond...