Word: raked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much has been said at more or less regular intervals concerning the ventilation of some of the older college lecture-rooms, that we are reluctant to rake up the subject. But occasionally, after one's brain has been dulled by the suffocating air of a close room or racked with fears of pneumonia and bronchitis, it is impossible to keep down a feeling of mingled indignation and despair. We know that it is no easy matter for the University authorities to remedy the evil; that improvements cost money; that the University is cramped for funds which may be applied...