Word: planted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year in the spring time when the trees are on the point of budding a special day is set apart as a holiday in all the education institutions of the state. This early spring festival is called "Arbor Day." Then, with an eye to beautifying their grounds, the students plant trees and shrubs about the buildings. Thus, in course of time the surroundings of their study hours will be shaded with groves of trees and clumps and hedges of bushes and perennial flowering plants. Attending the ceremony and friends of the students and usually an elaborate program is carried...
...needed. The electricity needed could be furnished by the dynamo-electric machine in Boylston Hall which is under the charge of the assistants .This would necessitate only a short line of wires from one building to the others. To defray the expenses, which would be slight after the plant was put in, the college could certainly find the means. For supplying the plant either a popular subscription might be raised or some one of the friends of education be appealed to for funds. Many men would be willing to stand their share if the first method were to be adopted...
...college grounds. In past years there has been nothing to complain of in the appearance of our lawns and well trimmed trees, but some improvements about the yard might be suggested which could be easily carried out, and at trifling expense. It would be but little trouble to plant ivy near the buildings, and the result would be very pleasing. If the older buildings could be covered with a coat of living green, it would greatly increase the beauty of the yard by hiding the stiff and angular forms of the walls; and there is no reason why ivy should...
...namely, the use of the rifle is of great benefit in strengthening the eyesight, and what could be a more beneficial change for a man who has spent an hour over a text-book in crabbed German type, than to spend another hour in the open air striving to plant his bullets in the eight-inch bullseye, 200 yards from where he stands...
...meeting of the Alpha Delta Phi Prof. James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School responded to the toast, "The public service, - a trust and not a perquisite." His was a brief speech, alluding with facetiousness to his proposed trip to Greece and his mission to plant colonies of Alpha Delta Phi along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington was introduced as a representative of the Harvard Chapter. He told of the perennial power of the fraternity, and of the life-long allegiance which the members owe to it. Men of all the educated...