Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most notable events of the year. It is long since Harvard has had a similar opportunity of combined instruction and enjoyment, and the presentation of the play will be awaited with eagerness. It is thoroughly refreshing to have features of ancient life which have hitherto had all the dryness of text-books about them, quickened into real significance for us. Interest in the play will by no means be confined to classical scholars. A very large proportion of the students will feel themselves indebted to the men who have unreservedly spent their time and labor to make the affair successful...
...Nash Lecture Room last evening, Professor Goodale addressed the Botanical Club on the subject of Desert Vegetation. The numerous adaptations of plants to extremes of dryness were illustrated by stereopticon views of our South-western plains, the dry lands of Mexico, Egypt, North New Zealand, and central Australia...
...only one of a series which have been and will be given by different colleges; Yale and Vassar have very recently produced something of the kind. These plays have a sphere of usefulness before them in throwing off the reputation before them in throwing off the reputation for dryness and lack of life which many college men give the classics. Such performances show that the old life was not so far separated as might be from our own new life. The particular play in question will be given as nearly as possible in exact imitation of its original setting; this...
...been fearful, and many of the courts could not even pretend to be smooth. The condition of the league courts has been a little better than that of the others, but even these are far from what they ought to be. There may have been some excuse for the dryness of the courts in the long absence of rain; but after yesterday's shower there should be no reason for not keeping the courts in perfect condition. The association has this trust from the college, to provide it with at least respectacle tennis accommodations; and considering the great number...
...finish of the two principal stories is to be of painted plaster. The woodwork is reduced to practical minimum, and brick walls and fire stops prevent the chances of a fire spreading. The outside walls are hollow, to assure dryness...