Word: skies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Swarthmore and Westchester, calls renewed attention to the poor provision at Harvard in case of fire. As the Princetonian says, in commenting on some new fire escapes just erected at Princeton, "It has been proved that college buildings can and will burn." That paper further congratulates the occupants of "sky parlors" on the increased security afforded them by the new improvements. We wish we could say the same for Harvard, but the fact is that we are living in singular disregard of any provisions for safety in case of fire. Only one or two of our dormitories possess fire-escapes...
...ignorant of the fact that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation...
Chinaman don't rock the cradle; they make the sky rocket...
...February has appeared in wintry splendor, and from our seat on the hill-top we look out upon our pretty village, up to its knees in snow, in real old-fashioned New England style, and beautiful to behold are the dazzling levels and fantastic drifts under the deep blue sky. But in the busy round of work we have scarcely time to watch nature's doings, and only when she flings a glorious day like this in our very faces do we stop to wonder and admire. Just now we have on the tapis a course of readings from Shakspere...
...scene represents the ancient palace, with a magnificent court-yard adorned with fountains and statues; everything has been done to imitate as nearly as possible the old Greek stage, and the blue sky is seen on all sides, apparently as far as the eye can reach. The whole effect of the stage appointment is strikingly brilliant, and will certainly make a profound impression on the audience...