Word: journey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...variety of climates through which they had passed, they were, on the whole, in pretty good condition. Nobody who went on the trip has anything unpleasant to say about it; a more congenial company could hardly have been brought together. Two factions arose toward the end of the journey, but, as will be seen later, it was all in fun. The clubs owe not a little to Mr. Rodney Mac Donough who so ably managed the trip. A man so genial and pleasant, to such a degree interested in the success of the clubs as a whole...
...expense of living. There is no doubt that the School of Arts, as a college, would be better off in a locality where students and teachers might live in such close proximity that several hours might not, as now, be wasted daily by many students in the journey to and from the college. Again, the nature of American life makes peculiarly necessary for the collegian a strong force to counteract the incessant temptation to spread his energies over very various and often conflicting occupations...
Professor Richardson has been president of the American School at Athens for the past year and has been a member of the party, which has made the recent excavations. The lecturer told of the great privations which the party had undergone on their journey from Athens to Eretria; they were obliged to go by sea owing to a terrible snow storm which was raging at the time. Then followed an outline of the history of Eretria. After this, stereopticon views illustrated the accounts of the excavations made. Just outside the town of Eretria the party came upon great blocks...
...Woodville Rockhill, in his journey through the unexplored recesses of the Celestrial empire, now hies himself to "Northern Tibet and the Yellow River...