Word: hell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics did not begin to have the prominence in American life that they have hell since. There were no great athletic clubs - as we look at them to-day - few if any cinder paths, no good stop watches, and no accredited timers. How are we to wonder, then, that all sorts of unreliable and preposterous records were accepted as good, on the word of half a dozen interested "sports?" Read, for instance, these gems of the collection mentioned above, which after all is a very incomplete...
...clearer than Emerson. He endeavors to emphasize, by means of more prolix English, that Emerson had us understand that in each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...
While the average college man was well aware of the local commotion due from the College House explosion, the earthquake from the somewhat greater, though no more historic explosion at Hell Gate recently, was also perceptible at Cambridge...
Coming so soon after the mighty upheaval at Hell Gate the explosion in the less infernal confines of College House will hardly attract its proper share of attention from the outside press. Yet the catastrophe of last night is the most serious that has be-fallen the college since our worthy yard watchman found a piece of wire-wound broomstick with a firecracker inserted in one end, and promptly reported the authorities a diabolical plot to blow up the dormitory buildings of the college. If matters do not make an immediate change for the better, it will not be many...
...back from the mouth of Hell...