Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is no reason why we should desert the Renaissance style, for this we can adopt to our needs as other centuries have to theirs, but as soon as we endeavor to imitate former styles we fall out of touch with our own era, and therefore fail of accomplishing the main object of modern architecture, the union of art with architecture in representing the feelings of the times...
...Nash Lecture Room last evening, Professor Goodale addressed the Botanical Club on the subject of Desert Vegetation. The numerous adaptations of plants to extremes of dryness were illustrated by stereopticon views of our South-western plains, the dry lands of Mexico, Egypt, North New Zealand, and central Australia...
Botanical Club. Desert Vegetation (illustrated by the stereopticon). Professor Goodale. Botanical Museum...
...Brakeman's Story." It is very well done. Two sketches by Chamberlin are only mediocre. The first is the better of the two, for while the second is much the better subject, the reader is perhaps a little tired toward the end of being told "he lay on the desert." G. C. Christian contributes a story entitled "The Fate of Mary B." It is well written, but borders a little, perhaps, on the shady...
...LOWELL, Captain.BOTANY 1. - The voluntary Illustrated lecture this morning will be by Mr. Ganong on "Characteristics of Desert Vegetation...