Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young man of family, the chivalric blood which is the precious Southern tradition, to its halls. Most educated men older than forty in the South have spent a season here, and even now, with the multiplication of State universities and privately endowed colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, its prestige keeps it at the head. In 1861, its 700 students went almost in a body to the field. during the war a handful of professors maintained the outward show of instruction, joining the army in some instances for the summer vacation. The spacious buildings were a hospital...
...change for the better. To be sure the man-holes in front of Hollis and Stoughton have at last been grated over by our thoughtful and ever-indulgent faculty, but the entries of Matthews still mourn for a light, and the gymnasium entrance yawns a black and dreadful gulf. Men run sufficient risk of injury in their daily life not to be able to gratefully omit the added peril of total darkness and icy, slippery steps. We feel assured that if the inconvenience to the students were fully appreciated by the powers that be, the defect would be speedily remedied...
...story published yesterday of the discovery of the bodies of the crew belonging to the second cutter of the lost Arctic steamer Jeannette in the Gulf of Khatange, is pronounced preposterous by Mr. George Kennan of New York, an extensive Arctic traveller...
...centres where our young men crowd for instruction. These must sooner or later yield their precedence and pass the torch they hold to other hands. Where shall it next flame at the head of the long procession? Shall it find its old place on the shores of the Gulf of Salerno, or shall it mingle its rays with the northern aurora up among the fields of Norway, or shall it be borne across the Atlantic and reach the banks of the Charles, where Agassiz and Wyman have taught, where Hagen still teaches, glowing like his own Lampyris splendidula with enthusiasm...
Five vessels were wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico in a recent storm...