Word: flamingly
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...tongues of flame the message came...
...able article on the Harvard debating system, it is the only good thing in the whole number. Four poems, one in German, and an article on the visit of the Prince of Wales to Harvard have but little merit. The number closes with a review of "The Flame of Life," by Gabriele D'Anunzio. It is ambitious and extravagant and together with an article by B. A. Mackinnon called "Fuller's Proposal," wholly outside the sphere of the magazine. In general, the number fails to give the impression of the College that it set as its original standard...
...nothing more than a large receiver of air from which the air can be exhausted. In order to get the rays, however, you must push the exhaustion only to a certain point. Now instead of using the 10,000 cells already mentioned to produce the pale blue flame, a Ruhmkoff coil is introduced, which makes it possible to get a high electro-motive force...
...Harvard now would respond to the call of the country as eagerly as those of forty years ago; let us have the stars and stripes floating above the elms to tell the world that the same spirit now smoulders within the college as that which burst into flame in '61. There is room in front of University or by the side of the drive that runs across from the gate to put in a pole, or the flag might be flown on University itself. If this were done it would do more to decorate the Yard than forty thousand Chinese...
...seen at the University Garden. On entering the gate on Garden street, one finds, on the left hand, arranged in a roockery, a choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk...