Word: airs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...omen. Not until the clouds have parted from the mountain peaks, do the natives deem it safe to set out. The climbing is difficult and often dangerous. On the mountain sides are to be found curious rock-capped pinnacles of clay towering many feet into the air. The rain and snow has washed away all the clay except that directly under the rock. The men have to squirm their way up between two vertical walls of rock or climb up perpendicular sides, holding on by hands and feet...
...subject of class room ventilation has for years received more or less frequent comment and discussion. The value of fresh air and the present inadequate system used in the majority of class rooms (particularly those in Sever Hall) serve to keep the topic before the undergraduate mind...
...lectures. It might easily be made the duty of the departing monitor to open all windows. Even this would be ineffective, however, if there were not also a rule that the windows be left open until seven minutes past. By such a system class rooms would receive a thorough airing every hour. It is true that there are at present some professors and instructors who follow this plan, but the practice is by no means universal. If it were, we should no longer be frequently forced to remain an hour in a class room containing practically no oxygen...
...disadvantages of gas are only too apparent. The present fixtures are un-lovely enough, and the light itself besides being hot exhausts the oxygen of the air at the same rate as five men. The expense of electric light is slightly greater than that of gas, the difference ranging from $5 to $7 a year. This matter should be taken up by the Senior Dormitory Committee of the Junior class...
...Library building to provide for more adequate ventilation. During the present cold weather the atmosphere in the Reading Room has been literally foul, a condition which is unfair, unhealthy, and stupifying. It would seem at least the part of consistency in raising standards to furnish fresh, clean air, if only to make the studious efforts of undergraduates more effective and more attractive to the men themselves...