Word: mountains
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...excelled. Of course so wealthy a school has had the very best of professors, of whom two of the most noted are Michael Neander, the famous scholar and hymn-writer, and F. A. Wolf, the greatest Homeric scholar of his time. The school owns many miles of mountain forests and to induce the students to exercise the authorities have laid out long walks through them. Regular instruction in riding, shooting, swimming, fencing, and dancing is compulsory. In an old cloister are two bowling alleys and in another building are billiard and reading rooms. There is also a splendid library containing...
...Ward, the pitcher of the New Yorks, was once a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and he has talked seriously recently of giving up baseball and going back to finish his course. Humphries, who caught for the League team here the last season, is a Cornell man, and Mountain who has been pitching for a Western club, was a student at Union. Richmond, the left-banded pitcher, was a Brown man, and, when he joined the Worcesters first the college catcher went with him. The Brown pitcher some years back, Saulsbury, played with professional clubs for several years...
...interesting piece of work has been begun at the botanic garden. A field of about three fourths of an acre, in extent, situated just north of Dr. Gray's house not heretofore brought into cultivation as a part of the garden is being transformed into a miniature country of mountain, marsh, and plain, wherein, with the coming of spring, will be represented by growing plants the flora of northeastern America. Little effort will be made to imitate the beauties of nature in waterfalls, grottoes, etc, for such efforts are held to meet with little appreciation in this country
...Lummis, '81, is a regular contributor to Life, the Detroit Free Press, Texas Siftings and the Continent. Mr. Lummis is at present engaged in writing a work on the "History of the Use of Tobacco," as well as preparing a second volume of his "White Mountain Sketches," and also of his "Birch Bark Poems." He is also engaged in editing the Scioto, (Ohio) Gazette...
Prof. E. C. Pickering of the Harvard Observatory will read a paper on "Mountain Observatories" in Boston next Wednesday evening...