Word: riche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house is a saloon, and every saloon has a faro bank...
...Post says, in regard to the Agassiz Museum : "By the purchase of the large Schary collection of Bohemian Silurian fossils, and by its own rich amassing in the West and Southwest during the year, the museum now contains one of the finest collections of palaeozoic fossil invertebrates in existence...
These slender-stemmed, rich purple pansies...
...dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February...
...report of the secretary of the Harvard "Annex" brings up some interesting considerations upon the future of the movement represented by that institution towards the introduction of co-education at Harvard. The annex, we are told, looks forward with hope and confidence to the time when, backed by a rich endowment and a powerful clientage, it may knock at the doors of this ancient university and demand admission as a constituent part of its organization. The prospects of any such an event of course are so far removed into the future as to prevent any apprehension whether pleasant or otherwise...