Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Loud complaint is heard on all sides about the wretched ventilation of the library. Even the poor facilities for furnishing the reading-room with fresh air, are not taken advantage of and consequently the atmosphere in the library is abominable...
...disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper ventilation during the hours devoted to work and sleep is of the first consequence, and can best be attained by the use of open fireplaces instead of the usual furnace, which rarefies the air to an injurious extent. Plenty of exercise in the open air in agreeable company will prevent the bilious headache and mental depression which interfere so often with the usefulness of professional men. Above all, intervals of complete rest, combined with change of occupation, such as the cultivation of flowers...
...them to carry a tune. The Ivy Club gives a tea to the patronesses of the assembly from three to five, to which about two hundred invitations have been issued, and with the various hall receptions, etc., Princeton will for once present a gay and festive air...
...them are the inferiors of the preparatory schools of Eton and Rugby; but still we call them "universities." It is a new example of the old fable of the frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...
...Pierian Sodality was asked to give a concert at Wellesley College. Last Monday evening was the time fixed for the entertainment, and in accordance with the arrangements of the managers, the members of the orchestra left Cambridge in a barge at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. The air was cold and bracing and a pleasant ride was anticipated; but before they reached their destination most of the men were numb with the cold and were thinking with pleasure of the bot little spread that would surely be ready for them when they got to Wellesley. The college was reached shortly...