Word: hot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season...
...bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water, hot and cold, fixed tubs, and shower baths...
...seems a pity that we cannot have better temperatures in the recitation and examination rooms. One of the two extremes almost always exists, either the rooms are very much too hot or they are very much too cold. During the present season the former has perhaps been more prevalent than the latter, the rooms more often too warm than too cold. Why can't we have the good old "happy medium," or at least some attempts to attain it? Nothing wars so powerfully against the gaining of knowledge as an unpleasant atmosphere. To be sure some argue for the best...
...vote of the president and fellows to repeal the second and third paragraphs of the statutes of the University, numbered 14, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks, and Lowell. This vote relates to the attendance at Sunday services, The vote of the president and fellows, admitting students hot candidates for a degree to the courses of instruction given in the University, was referred to Messrs. Lodge, J. T. Morse and Seaver. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in their vote to amend the statute of the University numbered nine, printing after Bachelor of Science the words...
...curiosity which cannot be satisfied until the two or three days are announced on which the students, (but then only seniors), will be admitted. The observatory is out of our reach, but almost opposite are the Botanic Gardens. This we may enter, and we will probably find even the hot houses open. The lover of botany will have his hands full here. I can stop for no description. Let the reader visit the gardens himself, and he will be well repaid...