Word: dust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college "first a place to study"; athletics "strange gods"; study "six hours a day"; Dr. Stryker is out of step with progress. There may have been a time when his doctrines would have won adherents; happily it is past, and they have been delegated to the dust bin where repose other curious and outgrown theories the hampered and restricted our daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension...
...crumbling cornices, the dust, my dream...
...Sargent has succeeded in doing a hard job well. He has so interwoven and proportioned facts of antiquity, descriptions of old houses, historical data, present-day industrial notations, descriptions of natural features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...
With a little care and discretion such exercise can be made as agreeable as it is wholesome. Usually there is no dust. Often the temperature is neither too low for comfort nor too high for vigorous exercise without weariness or lassitude...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...