Word: one
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last night Mr. George James Peirce, of the Scientific School, delivered a Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. His essay was one which would prove especially interesting to students of Natural History, and although it contained many technical terms, it was clearly and concisely written...
...plants are distributed in one of two ways, either by inherent or by extraneous means. The first, perhaps, is the simpler and more natural, and yet it is a well-established fact that as much is done towards reproduction by extraneous means as by inherent ones...
...seeds over the world and their growth, upon extraneous means. These are divided into two classes-inorganic and organic. The primary inorganic causes are the actions of winds, streams, currents, and glaciers. It is almost impossible to estimate the amount of work due to these causes, for every one of these inorganic means is almost constantly at work, Organic means are of those of insects, fishes, lower mammalia and man. The buoyancy of seeds differs greatly, and to the greater lightness of some seeds in a great measure is due their greater chances for dissemination; for if they are buoyant...
...Thursday afternoon that if we wished to get a room in a college building, fitted up during the spring recess, we must have a petition before the Overseers on Monday, March 25. Two meetings are usually necessary to form permanently such a society, and there was only time for one meeting in this case. As many men as possible were collected on Thursday evening and a temporary organization made with a committee to suggest a constitution. On Friday a meeting was held at which a constitution was adopted, officers elected and instructed to place before the Overseers the petition...
...club is not a private one, but one formed to forward the art of photography in the University...