Word: scylla
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer bathing suits, or even a raft...