Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leave me on the plain...
...seems plain, then, that to insist on good reading would not be out of place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course...
...COURSE of ten lectures upon the principles and practice of horticulture will be given by Professors Goodale and Farlow and Mr. Watson, at the Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plain, beginning Saturday, April 20. The lectures will be given on successive Saturdays at three o'clock P. M. The fee for the course will be three dollars...
...necessary arrangements made a few weeks before the race. An entry for the single-scull race has been made by the Newton Boat-Club, but this organization regrets that it cannot take part in the race on May 25. No reply has been received from the Jamaica Plain Club. Although the project of a combination regatta has not met with the encouragement and support from the amateur clubs of Boston and vicinity which was expected, there is a fair prospect of our having two interesting races. The single-sculls will attract no little attention, and the Union and Harvard four...
...even heard it proposed that every man should provide his own chair, - a plan which certainly would make a novel and interesting recitation-room ; for if there is one thing on which every man has certain pet ideas it is an easy-chair. Perhaps, however, long narrow tables and plain cane-seated or wooden arm-chairs would be the most acceptable in recitation-rooms. For lecture-rooms such seats as are now in use at the Botanical Garden are probably most popular...