Word: air
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Century--Comment on "The Prince of the Power of the Air," by A. G. Bell h.'96; "The Red City," No. V., by S. W. Mitchell h.'86; "The Elephant's Bride," by J. Corbin '92; "The Canals and Oases of Mars," by P. Lowell '76; "Mary Garden," by H. T. Finck...
...studies. Without them the undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...
...best ways to popularize the Glee Club is by means of the open air concerts of the spring evenings. There have been too few of these in recent years and they have been too perfunctory. Considerations of weather of course prevent any definite schedule, but if it became a custom for members of the Glee Club to gather at some spot in the Yard on warm evenings and sing for a little while merely for the pleasure of it, much would be done to cultivate more enjoyable popular singing, as well as to add a delightful touch to the Yard...
...newspapers create the very air we breathe and for most people they are the sole source of information about what is going on in the world. However, there are two tendencies to be contended against--the bad stimulation to the mind that the "yellow" papers give by laying undue emphasis on crime, scandal and sensation; and the evil influence of papers that stand for moneyed interests...
...succession that with each new one we are inclined to say. "This must be a pot-boiler," and then we take it up and to our surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters...