Word: ether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Through the blue ether and lower...
...spirits. They anticipated a hard race and victory. The Yale men were well and jolly, except the redoubtable Cook, who was profoundly agitated because a neglected bed of weeds, opposite the city, had been buoyed, under the direction of Harvard, without consulting him; and the "Commodore" filled the surrounding ether with vague threats and hints of trouble escaped and to come. In the morning both crews were well and happy, Yale boisterous and Harvard quiet...
...absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens of America; its Senior class disporting itself in the salons of an ex-governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university feels a just pride in its advantages, and mentions them frequently in its journal...
...Curtius was petitioned by the Germans to allow the windows to remain closed. In winter the case is still worse, and at the end of the hour the American student, who has been used to better things at home, rushes to the window to get a gasp of pure ether. Unhappy is the man who must sit in the same room for the following hour. Not only has the good air been exhausted, but the evil has been increased in another important respect. As elegance of dress and personal cleanliness are rare traits of the German student, the odor that...
...second speaker has a still more indefinite scope for his remarks than the first, his good things have been said by the class orator, his words ascend to the ether above, and are caught only by the broadest ears in his audience. Of the custom of planting ivies I have nothing to say. To point to the walls of the Library, against which clinging vines have been planted for at least a score of years, is sufficient. The magnificent display of green foliage hiding the gray stone is justly admired by all who see it. But cannot the next graduating...