Word: rare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greenhouse there are many rare and curious plants. One of the most interesting of these is a lace leaf plant from Madagascar, so called because its leaves are mere skeletons and look very much like a fine green lace. Among other plants in bloom is a butterfly orchid and a curious plant called the Holy Ghost plant, whose bloom resembles a tiny dove...
...production of Goldsmith's Good-Natured Man by the Delta Upsilon next Tuesday affords a rare opportunity to see this very entertaining comedy. The play was last given in this vicinity about twelve years ago, when the Cambridge Dramatic Club produced it with great success. While the absence of any strong feminine parts keeps the Good-Natured Man from the professional stage, this very lack, with the strong characterization in the masculine parts, peculiarly fits it for the production by college students. The play is considered by some critics superior to She Stoops to Conquer; certainly the bailiff...
Certainly no student of the University who desires to understand the great advances made in the photographic art of recent years, and to enjoy a rare opportunity for comparison of interesting geological forms from various localities, should fail to visit the photographic exhibition of the Geological Department, at present being held in Massachusetts Hall. Regarded from the standpoint of photography, the various portions of the exhibition are of unequal merit. The fine mountain-work of Sella and of Jackson rather casts into the shade the remainder of the collection. Yet the subjects of all the photographs are so interesting, that...
...experience or skill. The young man does not find the positions open to him today that the young man of twenty years ago did. The places are now being given to older men, and the college graduate who achieves any considerable success before he is thirty years old is rare...
...concluding volumes of Mr. Aitken's edition of Defoe's "Romances and Narratives," published by Macmillan and Co., include the rare and valuable "Due Preparations for the Plague," and a number of pamphlets relating to Capt. Avery, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, and other pirates and robbers, now reprinted for the first time...