Word: volcano
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Dana, of Yale, last summer visited Hawaii, where he spent a week studying the crater of Kilauea. He had examined the volcano forty-seven years ago, and found that it had not changed as much as he had in the intervening years.- N. Y. World...
...perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein lies...
Indeed, the state of feeling towards the faculty is so hostile that it may be likened to a volcano, which, as one writer says, "with the awful and potent causes which underlie it, is bound to erupt, even through incalculable obstacles, and carry to the outer world at least some taken of the fires that burn within." The students say that they have long enough confined their feelings to "concealed disrespect, quiet sneers, and subdued profanity toward that body whose position should call for personal respect. "Nor is this hostility confined only to the espionage and athletic questions. Much fault...
...Dartmouth professor is going to the Sandwich Islands for the purpose of exploring volcanoes. If the gentleman wishes to explore a really first class volcano in good working order we would recommend him to as interview with the Advocate editorial board on the subject of Memorial Hall...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...