Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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After the Chapel, spreads, dancing, and music on the Green. The number of promenaders was at no time in the afternoon very great, for our poor elms had become prey for the worms many weeks before, and could no longer offer the cool shade they fain would have given the fair strollers beneath. The scene in Lyceum and Massachusetts Halls and in the dormitories was, however, as gay and as bright and as enjoyable as ever. The dancing, the ices, and the flirtation went on till half past five, and then came the grotesque march around the Yard, the hearty...
...combination of blows, rubs, hot and cold water, and soap, and wound up by asking me if I wanted a "plunge." Passing over his insolent conduct in silence, I requested him to produce his "plunge." I descended a flight of slippery steps, and gently stepped into a tank of cool, refreshing water. The place was long and winding, lighted by gas, with a little shelf at each end, just like the seal's tank in an aquarium. Leaving this subterranean lake, I was rubbed down after the manner of ostlers, and laid under a blanket. This was decidedly pleasant...
...cool damp flags of the dairy floor...
...with a consciousness of power to control them, yet no enjoyment could seem more real or be more unalloyed. The frosty air of winter stealing in about our ears and among the tangles of our hair makes us the more sensible of the comfort of warmth and repose. The cool, fresh, fragrant breaths of a summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that...
Another writer in the same paper goes to much greater lengths in his attack on our time-honored institution. "K" is not at all cool or persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and its fetters galling." Rather strong language, I think, to apply to the friendship which naturally exists between one or two hundred young men of like age, having like studies, and the same interests and pursuits in general. This writer longs for the time when "pseudo-unity of spirit will...