Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...Peabody's work as a college preacher has been eminently successful. In 1881, while in the bloom of his work he layed down his charge to be taken up by younger hands. And yet Dr. Peabody is not old. Though his hair has turned white, his love and spirit for kind works are as fresh and young as ever. Since he resigned his position as preacher, he has been active in writing and translating, and now and then the college has the pleasure of listening to him in Appleton Chapel...
...mild and balmy. Seldom is there any winter. "The buildings, like those of Northern colleges of the grade of Dartmouth, Brown or Amherst, never had any doors apparently, and do not need them." Nor have hard blizzards necessitated even the replacing of "windows broken in war time." The roses bloom all the time in open air, and there is out-door singing in the January evenings, as with us in June. The board and lodging is fabulously cheap ($18 a month) from our point of view, but the students are perhaps even better fed, for the cooking is excellent...
...tropical greenhouses at the Harvard Botanic Garden there is a rare variety of the orchid family now in bloom. The magnificent plant, whose technical name is angraecum sequipedale, is a native of Madagascar where it is found growing upon large trees. In Madagascar it usually has a stem about four feet high; its leaves are a glossy green and are about a foot long. The blossom is nearly six inches in diameter, is very white, and has a spur from a foot to a foot and a half in length. It fragrance is very powerful and is peculiarly...