Word: plains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Anyone who has lived in the far West or in the valley of the Mississippi notices at once the amount of detail in eastern scenery, a detail quite lacking from the simple structure of the great plains. Not only is the rock formation varied and interesting, but an additional attraction lies in the fact that it is only a short time from a geological point of view since an ice-cap existed over all this region. Traces of it are too plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under...
...social life of the world. The modern influence, to be sure, is against this spirit, thanks to the prominent position which science has taken of late years. Imagination and poetry are scoffed at and reduced to the tests of analyzation. No one can deny that a spirit of plain reality is most invigorating; the question is whether science is the real end in all that some of its followers would have us believe...
Frederick Gilbert Bauer, who will give the Latin salutatory on the subject of "The Cuban Teachers," lives in Jamaica Plain. He prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School, graduating with the Class of '97. Since entering College he has received a Detur and Highest Second Year Honors in Classics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
...Freshman musical clubs will give three concerts in aid of the Freshman crew. The first will be held on May 25 in Brattle Hall; the second on May 28 in Stanwood Hall, Malden; and the third on June 1 in Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. Tickets may be obtained at Sanborn's Amee's, and the Co-operative, and from members of the Freshman musical clubs...
Officers in charge of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain have had published recently a map of the grounds of the Arboretum and of the Bussey Institute adjoining. The map, which is quite large, shows the location and gives the name of every bit of shrubbery on the grounds...