Word: farm
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THROUGH the generosity of the late James Arnold of New Bedford, the University will be enabled to establish a great arboretum on the Bussey-farm property, West Roxbury, and to create with it a chair of arboriculture, the first in the United States...
...races started promptly on time" (Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen who have attended every prominent regatta in the country for five years past, we may confidently declare this the most successful in every respect ever known in America" (Newark Daily Advertiser...
...died in 1858 at a ripe age in his farm-house near Lexington...
...late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius was recognized. Smith did more; he wrote a long article on the "Art of Living," and sent it to the editor of the Hampton Gazette, but his genius was not recognized...
...with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell's Life, Sporting and Dramatic News, Clipper, Turf, Field, and Farm, and the reliable sheet before mentioned. Thus we hope to present to our readers a bird's-eye view of amateur athletic sports of every place and of every kind...