Word: moist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...These long courses in short terms, the attempt to keep the University under full steam through the moist heat of a Chicago summer, the encouragement given to the student to compress four years' work into three years - the whole scheme breathes that nervous, restless haste which is one of the most deplorable features of American life; and when our universities come to forget that "school" means leisure, and that high-thinking cannot be hurried, one of the last safeguards against the national vice of over-pressure will be lost...
...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...