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...lower part of the grounds, the palms, cacti, century plants and Australian acacias have been effectively massed, giving the appearance of a tropical garden. Among the other flowers, the lady slippers, the German iris, and the columbines, the proposed national flower, make the best display...
...most important events which has occurred at the University in recent years was the dedication of the Flower Observatory, which has been building for the past year and a half. One of the houses contains the great Equatorial telescope, than which there are but five larger ones in this country and six in Europe. The aperture of the object is eighteen inches and the length of the instrument about twenty-seven feet. The observatory has been pronounced to be one of the finest and best equipped in the country...
...Deans and by the substitution of an Academic Council for the cumbersome Faculty Committee. Exclusive of the dormitories there have been erected during the year the Agnew Memorial Pavilion, the Maternity Hospital, the Pepper Clinical Laboratory, a new dental hall soon to be ready for occupation, and the Flower Observatory which is now in active operation. In addition to buildings, a botanic garden, terrestrial and aquatic, has been established which has proved of great value in making practical demonstrations of plant life. Explorations under the direction of the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology have been made in South America, Florida...
...following plan has been suggested for the exercises about the Class Tree. It has been proposed that instead of the scrimmage, to which there seems to be so much objection, there should be a shower of flowers from the Tree upon the heads of the Seniors as they stand grouped about it. This would seem to be a pretty certain cheek upon all combinations and unnecessary disorder; and, on the other hand, the old flower tradition would be retained and the mementos prized as highly as ever...
...effect of flowers raining from the branches-carrying out somewhat the idea of a "flower carnival"- would be very attractive from the point of view of the spectator. This proposal is put forth merely tentatively, as a means of helping along the discussion...