Word: airs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...snuff the cauler air...
THERE have been made lately frequent and just complaints as to the ventilation of some recitation-rooms. In one case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows. After a short time every breath of fresh air has been consumed, and the result of sitting in an over-heated room and of breathing a foul atmosphere for so long a time has been productive of many headaches and of much discomfort. There seem to be some who are unable to appreciate the sanitary advantages of fresh air...
While in the University, knowledge is imbibed with the air one breathes, a mode of study that requires no very great labor. Vacations, which are supposed to last the greater part of the year, are spent in improving the mind by foreign travel. Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day in walking about arm in arm, looking immensely important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...
...assigned to two of the most largely attended courses in College is a question that three times a week presents itself to those who elect Latin 8 or Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...
...such weather as this is enough to try the patience of more angelic dispositions than we boast of possessing in Weld. Why, we would ask, are not we favored with a furnace as well as the inhabitants of those other equally modern buildings, Holyoke and Matthews? The frigid air penetrates our walls as well as our doors and windows, and even our grates, which are acknowledged to be of a peculiar make, are not proof against this combined attack of the wintry blast. To leave open our outer doors is an utter impossibility, that is, if we object...