Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...flowers in the tropics. The comparison left no doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such...
...said yesterday this very variety of events will probably interfere with the complete success of any one of them. It will do no good to urge men to go to the University game in preference to the football contests; and vice vesa it is absurd to advise men to cling to their class feeling and neglect the University games. Even were it reasonable to do either one of these things we cannot from our position, side with one contest to the exclusion of the other. This combination of events on one day is unfortunate, but nothing can be done about...
...common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there are a few old customs like the junior dinner which we can well cling to. We hope the proper persons will take this matter in hand at once, and see that it is carried...
...practice be made general? Why should not the freshman when he enters college be more forcibly reminded of Harvard's honor-roll for the past two hundred years? Why should not the names of the Harvard men of years gone by who today challenge our enthusiastic respect and admiration cling to the old rooms they occupied in college, or peer at us familiarly from their chiseled resting-place on the corner of one of the college buildings...
...negro village in Ceylon. The growth and culture of tea is the principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most interesting to the botanists. This species grows luxuriantly in Ceylon...