Word: garden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...laboratory at the Botanical Garden has recently been equipped with a set of instruments which will permit a much more complete study of plant life than has yet been possible. The most interesting addition is a complicated piece of machinery for the purpose of determining the action of light and gravity on the growth of plants. A very powerful current of electricity has also been introduced into the laboratory in order to test the effect of electricity on plants. By means of a switch board, the current can be increased or diminished and the corresponding effects on plant growth...
...exercises of the School will begin Saturday, July 5, and end Friday, August 15. During the session the College Library, the Museum of Zoology, the Peabody Museum, the Semitic Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Botanical Garden and the Mineralogical Collection will be accessible to students...
Yale, 41; St. Paul's (Garden City...
...completed and will be ready for occupancy near the middle of the month. The building is the gift of Mrs. David P. Kimball and has cost about $70,000. It is a handsome, four-story, red brick structure trimmed with Vermont marble, and is located on Shepard street, near Garden. It contains bed rooms and studies for twenty five students, a large dining room, a library, and a parlor...
...older men would offer to you a garden in which such saplings will grow until they become the oaks to whose shade you may always return for cheer and for rest in your victories and your troubles. Be sure that you will have both, for the one you will win and the other you must surely meet; and when they come, nothing will steady and strengthen you like real friends who will speak the frank words of truth tempered by affection; friends who will help you and never count the cost...