Word: styx
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are a good many old Princeton boys around about here, and we naturally feel deeply grieved at the humorous Dr. Holmes insinuating that Princeton had been girdled around by Styx until Harvard enlightened her, and that Harvard had set fire to Calvinism and was burning it up in a blaze of truth...
Fast as if Styx had girt them nine times round...
Fast as if Styx had girt them nine times round...
...principals having had experience in previous Pudding theatricals, or in the theatricals of the sophomore societies. The title role, Papillionetta, is taken by Mr. C. A. de Gersdorf. The other parts are assigned as follows, King Cocalorum, G. C. Adams; Prince Prettypet, W. S. Barnes; Scaraboeus, J. A. Frye; Styx, D. P. Grisword; Bachtalque, G. Woodbury; Featherbrain, W. Baker; Ambassadors, Messrs. Cary, Cameron, Lincoln, and W. L. Allen; Queen Shebear, W. R. Dewey; Butterfly Queen, M. Hecksher; Gauzewing, T. T. Baldwin...
...came to my senses more and more, I realized that it was not upon the Styx's bank that my boat was beating, but against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...