Word: pompeii
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Institute grounds, Huntington Avenue, work has been begun for the Pompeiian Amphitheatre, to be erected for the especial use of Pain, the great London pyrotechnist, who intends giving a series of magnificent entertainments illustrating the Destruction of Pompeii...
...evidently no motto for our enlightened authorities. Here we have 'rent and care of room, $80.' Yes, that's right enough as far as rent goes, but how about care? Look at that mantelpiece, and the things on it! Why, they're buried in ashes more hopelessly than ever Pompeii was. Our goodies are not "too good," but "satis bonxexigue," which being translated meaneth, "just good enough,"-and few of them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term...
...Spaulding has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures on Pompeii at Dartmouth College, at the beginning of the spring term...