Word: displays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Natural History. He gave an account of our University Museum, founded by Louis Agassiz, and pointed out the lines on which Alexander Agassiz has fostered its growth. A public museum like ours has two distinct functions: First, the accumulation and utilization of materials for research; and, second, the display of selected specimens for the instruction of the public. He described the principal museums in this country and Europe, and closed by a short description of the interesting public museums in the Southern Hemisphere...
...tfON the evening of Election Day the Baldwin Bros. Co., 19 Brattle street, will receive, over their private wire, the election returns, which they will display from one of their windows...
Comparatively few students, other than those who are taking botanical courses at the University, know what a charming display of native and foreign flowers can now be seen at the University Garden. On entering the gate on Garden street, one finds, on the left hand, arranged in a roockery, a choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples...
...benevolence here will always be unassuming,- done with any purpose than for display. It is the characteristic of the Harvard spirit. The fact is constantly overlooked by those who, from the outsider's point of view, make their estimates and their criticisms of Harvard...
...wish success to the freshman musical clubs in their concert tonight. They fully deserve it. The few concerts which the clubs are allowed to give offer little enough inducement for the display of patience and spirit throughout the long period of practice, and not to have these few well patronized would be a sore disappointment. The concert will be the only one given in Cambridge...