Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this time. The Incandescent lamp constructed with the carbon tube or cylinder, gained great renown at the world's fair of electricity at Vienna last autumn and is considered to be the best electric light in existence, adapted to indoor and out-door lighting, and has not its equal for night study, and as it possesses the same quality as the sun light, it never injures nor tires...
...heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this purpose, but some student might be selected to captain the team or have general charge of it, in whose hands the selection of the team could be placed. With our many facilities for indoor training it seems humiliating to be beaten in this event by smaller colleges with fewer numbers. Careful training during the winter would make us reasonably sure of this contest, for although the teams pull in the ground at New York, the gymnasium work on the cleats would be very beneficial...
...when, with many, physical relaxation is at its greatest. At our present examination season, or earlier, the nervous systems of even the animals we experiment upon in physiological laboratories have so much less vigor as to be unserviceable for certain scientific purposes. The winter is nature's season for indoor and bookish work, while June days bring languor, give a fresh attraction to out-of-doors that comports ill with the culmination of the mental efforts of a year...
...yesterday afternoon, was attended by a large audience, including many ladies. Miss Fletcher, with the aid of her collection of curiosities, was enabled to give a vivid and interesting account of the domestic habits of the Omaha Indians, among whom she spent several years. She described their style of indoor work, methods of arranging their camps according to gens, and many other interesting details...
...uninterrupted practice was carried on by both crews, and again after Thanksgiving until January 10, omitting of course the Christmas holidays. At that advanced date the boat work had to be given up and the gymnasium appliances brought into play. The rowing machines formed the main portion of the indoor work, to which was added a series of general exercises laid down by the captain, the details of which he considers a 'trade secret.' At the machines the amount of exercise varied as to length of time, sometimes being continued as long as twenty-seven minutes, but always...