Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...striking. On each side of the stage the Birds were grouped like infantry prepared to receive cavalry, the front rank crouching close to the ground, wrapped in their wings, the next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders, and those behind extending their wings into the air; in the centre Peithetairos and Basileia, seated, in white wedding garments, with Euelpides, Prometheus, Herakles, Poscidon, and Triballos around them, and the hoopoe at the back spreading his broad yellow wings above them all. As before, Dr. Charles Waldstein, who has just been appointed the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum...
...latest improvement in bicycle manufacture is the kerosencycle. It is like the tricycle, but the propelling power is obtained by an engine located under the seat, in which a pressure is generated by the aid of kerosene oil and compressed air...
...list of executive officers, averaging one to every four members. Among the new organizations, are the Reading Room Association and the Brass Band. The latter contains twenty-three members, confined mostly to the two lower classes, and ought to afford the college much entertainment in the spring with open-air concerts. The Union as usual presents a formidable list of members numbering one hundred and twenty-three...
...newspaper account which reports the suppression of street parades by the Salvation Army in New Haven, states, "The Army now numbers some 70 members here, and their voices at the open-air meetings on the steps of the old State House have been so great as to discourage the Yale students from continuing the college glee songs from the campus fence in front of the college...
...Pierian was most unsatisfactory and we trust that this year such may not be the case. Both these societics, as representing the musical talent of Harvard, deserve the warm support of the college, and that they have not received it is a matter of reproach. The open air concerts in the spring are among the pleasantest features in the college year, and every one attends them as a matter of course. Why then, when an opportunity is given, should not every man do his share toward supporting the clubs by attending these concerts in Sanders? We earnestly hope that...