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Word: greene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prayer, by Professor Francis Green wood Peabody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250th Anniversary of the Foundation of Harvard College. | 11/4/1886 | See Source »

...upon thousands of people were on every hand, waiting breathlessly for the spectacle; but none of them were visible in the darkness. Two rockets shot up ward as signals and then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. III. | 11/3/1886 | See Source »

...special meeting of the Board of Overseers was held yesterday morning at 50 State Street. President E. Rockwood Hoar presided, and in the absence of Dr. McKenzie, Dr. Samuel Green acted as secretary pro tempore. The Board confirmed the election of Alexander Agassiz as a member of the Corporation to fill the vacancy made by the death of Professor Gurney. The arrangement of the details of the celebration of the coming two hundred and fiftieth anniversary occupied the remainder of the session, lasting two hours and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board of Overseers. | 10/21/1886 | See Source »

...Green, Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarships. | 10/16/1886 | See Source »

Professor Garman has a small Green snake - a southern variety - which he kept in a jar, and which is singularly unlike these others in character. It is a pretty creature and such as society belles wear as ornaments in parts of Brazil - and is very tame and affectionate. Its bed is a small ball of cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Agassiz Museum. | 10/5/1886 | See Source »

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