Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Botanic Garden, founded in 1807, and supported by private endowment and subscription, has never been closed to the general public, except for the first three days of last week, when, due to a misunderstanding, Professor Hamblin had a fence erected between the Garden and the property of the Gray Herbarium, had all the gates locked, and denied access to all visitors. Wednesday afternoon the Garden was opened again, by order of the President...
...Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...
...Gray Herbarium is situated in the Botanic Garden, on a corner of the property. The collection there was founded and largely developed by the late Asa Gray, and given by him to the University...
...wore derby hats at dawn. In Britain sportsmen remembered John Peel and his song more than on other Octobers, for last week marked the looth anniversary of the day when one John Woodcock Graves, poet-fox hunter, first bawled "D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray"* in the cosy bar parlor of the Rising Sun Inn at Caldbeck, in the rough Cumberland hills. From the "Big Grass" county of Leicestershire, enthusiasts traveled north to Caldbeck, where Peel lies buried, to sing his song, to ride once more over the country that...
...Gray, not "gay" was John Peel's coat. A simple fellside hunter, he never wore "pink...