Word: doors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books or newspapers he had read. This curious mixture of subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among the youth of the State schools in France. Most of the lycees were in old time richly endowed schools under...
...central part of the building that lie over the two recitation rooms, will be deadened on the under floor by laying cement mortar, and covering the whole with stout manilla paper. The under floors are to be made of spruce plank, and he upper of hard pine; all the doors will be made of ash. In the rooms destined for experiments in magnetism, all the door frames, window frames, and all framing and construction whatever, will be put up with brass, bronze, copper, zinc, or bell metal nails, or screws, to the rigid exclusion of iron in any shape...
...latest story laid at the door of John Stetson treats of his $150-per-week comedian, Harry Dixey, late Lord Chancellor of the Bijou. Dixey was speaking of the very limited educational chances which had fallen to his lot. "Well," said Stetson, "if you had graduated at Harvard you might be getting as much as eight dollars a week now, weighing nails in a hardware store." From which it appears that John shares somewhat the sentiments of Horace Greeley regarding college graduates...
...part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them...
...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...