Word: groves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seaside laboratory for Leland Stanford. Jr., University has been located at Pacific Grove, two miles west of Monteray, California. It is the first laboratory of the kind on the Pacific coast, and one of the four in the United States...
...Dental School has performed more than 125,000 practical operations, giving its experience and skill freely to all-comers. The school is now situated in Grove street and the building is inadequate to the present wants of the school. A better equipped building is needed. It is hoped that a desirable place near the school may be found for the site of the new building, and that the public will lend a generous support. The present members have done all in their power to sustain the school and now outside aid will be looked for. In the meeting today...
Professor Goodale recounted his journey through India, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, giving views of the palms and all plant life. A grove of cocoanut palms is always a sign of a negro village in Ceylon. The growth and culture of tea is the principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most...
...Monthly for July opens with a short but entertaining article by Edward Everett Hale on "Class Day in 1838 and 1839." Mr. Hale gives an interesting account of Class Day as it was fifty years ago, when the exercises were few and simple, and the punch, served in "the grove" near Appleton Chapel, was free to all in Cambridge. After the exercises around the tree, the visitors danced in front of Stoughton to the music of the Brigade band. The grandeurs of Class Day have certainly increased since those days, and the punch is no longer free...