Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It has struck me frequently, while engaged in catching flies in the air during some uninteresting lecture, that it would be profitable for others of equal curiosity with myself, if the various busts and statues so profusely scattered through our recitation halls were decorated with placards telling what each represented. My own case, I feel sure, is daily repeated; where some twenty busts line the walls it is quite a tax upon a fellow's knowledge to expect him to name them off to his own personal satisfaction and with sufficient glibness to insure some appearance...
...subjects of the lectures that Prof. Geo. L. Goodale will give before the Lowell Institute this year are as follows: "The Structure of the Plant;" "Relation of Plants to Water;" "Relations to the Soil;" "Relations of Air and Light;" "Relations to Air and Warmth;" "Most Favorable Conditions for Vegetable Activity;" "Conditions of Permanence, Means of Defence;" "Former Climates and Floras, and their Relations to Ours;" "The Floras of Extremes of Climate; The Frigid Zone, Deserts;" "The Flora of an Equitable Climate - The Equatorial Belt;" "The Flora of Variable Climates - The Temperate Zones;" "Acclimatization and Culture - The Production and Perpetuation...
...substitute for the cards heretofore employed, and will also act as a more specific guide to the use of the new system of apparatus." It may also be serviceable to outsiders who follow a regular method of physical training. Then follow general remarks upon exercise, diet, sleep, air, bathing, and other subjects of the same class. In these are given first of all some general directions, and, later on, rules applying to special cases. The rest of the book is given to a full indication of the proper use of each apparatus in the gymnasium, stating the weights, time...
...that they may realize more money by athletic exhibitions. As the border streets are narrow and the intended fences would stand close to the side-walks, the necessary effect would be to sadly injure the neighboring houses, to destroy their southern outlook, deprive them of most of their summer air and give a gloomy aspect to the lower front rooms; so that the taxes would have to be reduced because of the injury to the property, and some of the inhabitants might move away. Should the college government sanction this defacement of two pleasant streets by such a prison-wall...
...Dartmouth seniors annually have a "sing-out" as their last college exercise, when all of the class assemble in the chapel and make the air melodious with hymns and with college songs...