Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Cannot the gymnasium be better ventilated this warm weather by opening more windows? Although there are but few men who now exercise regularly yet it is very unpleasant for those few to find upon taking their exercise for "health" that the air is impure. Last Monday the atmosphere was almost foul, probably on account of the heavy state of the air outside. It seems, however, that by opening a few windows the air could be always kept pure without any one taking cold...
...intellectual tide is setting ever more strongly toward New York, and here, more than anywhere else, we shall, in the immediate future, need institutions affording opportunities for the highest culture. The right place for our American college is, as it has always been, the country, with its fresh air and healthful moral influences; but, as the poet says, 'a character is formed in the stream of the world.' It is in cities, in those centres of stirring life, that the character of men should be developed, their higher courses of study pursued; in other words, a city is the place...
...Memorial Hall waiter returning to the scenes of his daily triumphs over twelve brow-beaten individuals who submit to cold roast beef and hot vegetables or cold vegetables and hot roast beef, according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours in one day and then handed...
...daily did it take the air...
...Pendleton, '82, gave a very fine solo air in chapel yesterday morning...