Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the following, in the Academica, we judge that the study of mineralogy must be receiving considerable attention in the University of Cincinnati: "Some use was found, during October, for the metallurgical laboratory. John used it as a wash house. Some plants were also stationed before the window that the sun's rays might not be totally wasted...
...against us. Every mail brings us some paper in which we are horrified to find some marked article about "discrepancies." Why, it has become our b&?;te noire; it follows us everywhere, sleep brings us no balm, for we dream of it; when we awake, we see from our window a glaring bulletin about the "dining hall." Oh, what have we done to merit this? If we have sinned, then let the mills of the gods, like the tutor paid by the hour, grind slowly, but oh, exceeding fine...
...room in Boylston, especially during the lectures in Freshman Chemistry. For an hour, more than two hundred men are compelled to sit in a small lecture room, with no supply of fresh air other than that from the furnace in cold weather, and perhaps a small opening in the window during warm weather. The confined air is still further vitiated by the gases and other products of chemical experiments. No one could reasonably expect to have perfectly pure air in a chemical laboratory, but leaving out of consideration the pollution of the atmosphere by the chemicals used, the means...
...they crept up to the window, and looked in. A gray-haired woman was sitting alone before the fire in an easy-chair. That she was far from comfortable, bodily or mentally, was evident from her nervous glances about the room, in particular at the face of a slow and respectable old-fashioned tall clock in the corner. The room was plainly, indeed barely, furnished. A single kerosene lamp burned dimly on the table...
After his departure I promptly shut the window and, turning around, addressed myself to "For the Register...