Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...
Among the curious phenomena that spring presents to us here at Harvard, there is probably no spectacle more remarkable in itself and in its bearings than the return of the "mucker." When the earth is covered with snow and our puritanical east winds are whistling through the yard, it may be confidently asserted that no one ever sees one of these shaggy-headed sprites wending his way about the college. But with the white blossoms of spring and the first baseball game he somes in all his glory. To be sure some few symptoms of him can be seen generally...
...this latter part of the nineteenth century when a feeling of independence and equality, that one man is as good as another, is nowhere more clearly shown than in American college life, it is curious to notice in what a hotbed of aristocracy the early days of our colleges were spent...
...somewhat curious commentary upon the positive statement issued by the N. Y. conference committee on athletics to the effect that a four mile race "endangers the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart strain," that the circular just issued by the University of Pennsylvania, which criticised this statement is signed by two eminent Doctors of Medicine, one of whom at least is of national reputation. And yet we have the authority of the Spirit of the Times for it that the "stated facts" of all these resolutions, "are indisputable" and their conclusions unavoidable." Dr. Mitchell and Dr. White...
...Everett Hale is engaged in co-operation with his son, a recent graduate, on an historical sketch of Benjamin Franklin's life in Paris during the Revolution. The work was suggested by the purchase by our government of the Franklin papers. That immense collection is understood to throw very curious sidelights on the history of the great negotiations in which Franklin was engaged. Mr. Hale will make full use of these new treasures...