Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...move. And this was not the worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties on it all day long, accompanying a chorus of some twenty classmates. I could n't study at all, with so much noise to distract my thoughts from Italian Grammar and Natural History; result, an average of forty and one fifteenth per cent for Sophomore year...
...from the instructor by bands of sunlight and zones of darkness. Moreover, through the windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought to be one of the chief objects attended to, we hope that the architects will devise some way to avoid the existing evils...
...Students who attend the services at the Methodist church on Sunday evenings "carry their rowdyism so far as to distract the attention of a large portion of the audience, annoy the speaker, and insult members of the congregation...
...have been asked to call attention to the number of "loafers" who are often about the boat-houses. They distract the attention of the workmen from their proper business and are in the way of the students, beside bringing the latter in closer contact than is desirable with the mysteries of professional oarsmanship. It should be understood that the boat-house was built for the students, and not to serve as a boating exchange...
There is nothing here to distract the attention; and where could one study better than in the birthplace of Emerson? I have given Cowan to the town library, and shall turn over a new leaf when I return to college...