Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more of sturdy manliness...
Unclassified. - Air, water, clothing, diseases of occupation, climate, season, idiosyncrasy, animal and vegetable parasites, care of the eye and ear. Rise of new diseases. Great epidemics of ancient and modern times. Animal heat...
Since time immemorial, the faculty has decidedly quenched all signs of such a thing as playing in the yard. We have even seen a foot-ball man prevented by a member of the faculty from tossing a foot-ball in the air while crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last...
...started for the door, but through weakness none reached it. A Goat hired of Puck, in anticipation of 'Beautiful Snow' literature, expired in his box of straw. As the Ibis leaned over this box, and arranged the straw so as to cover the lifeless body, he murmured, with an air that reminded one of bygone summers, of fruit and of flowers: - "Ah, well! The Board of Straw-berries him completely...
Many of these aspirants for learning and free-lunch have honest ideas of what work is, and so, by ruining their health in study, give occasion for the German equivalent of a "fresh-air" charity. This we find under the name of "Sick Student's Relief Association." which sends large numbers of men to the health resorts and other recruiting places...