Word: arboreal
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...curious custom is prevalent in Indiana. Every 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...
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell, who lectured with such success before the Harvard Historical Society some two years ago is to deliver a course of lectures before the Students' Lecture Association at Ann Arbor. These lectures should be heard at Harvard...
Prof. Hennequin, of Ann Arbor University, has almost completed a French and American dictionary, begun by Prof. Fasquelle, which will for the first time present the philology of both languages in juxtaposition. It will be issued during the coming year...
...Psychological" drama by the professor of French at Ann Arbor, entitled "A Social Bargain," is shortly to be put upon the New York stage...
...give in the following, the number of freshmen in the different colleges, as far as we are able to ascertain from our exchanges: Harvard. 300; Yale, 257; Ann Arbor, 191; Cornell, 140; Alleghany, 156; Princeton, 150; Lehigh, 122; Syracuse, 100; Dartmouth. 99; Haverford, 56; Union, 50; Bates, 40; Rochester, 38; Colby, 34; Bowdoin, 33; Asbury University, 98; Columbia, 95; Williams, 86; Lafayette, 82; Hamilton, 75; University of Chicago, 70: Amherst, 62; Brown, 60; Wesleyan, 59; Rutgers, 27; Tufts, 26; University of Vermont, 23; Madison, 23; Middlebury, 16; Maritta, 16. [Syracuse Herald...