Word: roote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. A fox-terrier dog, white body, black and tan ear and black and tan spot at root of tail. A suitable reward will be given if returned to 1 Manter...
Many flowers, such as eel grass and the water-lilies are water-fertilized. The staminate and pastilate flowers are born near the root of the plant under water, the latter rise on long stems to the surface, and the former breaking off, rise and fertilize them...
...appearing that Oliver Dean Root, M. D., 1854, died at New Orleans in 1863, in the discharge of his duties as an assistant surgeon of the United States, it has been recently voted by the Corporation of Harvard University, that his name be placed on the tablets in Memorial Hall. - Boston Medical and Surgical Journal...
...word freshman is of very ancient origin, being derived from the old Sanscrit root, fhra, signifying raw, green, innocent, fresh. Compounded with the Saxon word Man, it becomes a synonym of infantile innocence and unworldliness, and is universally applied to individuals of a tender age when they first enter collegiate halls of learning...
Students are proverbial grumblers. They may be rated dull by their companions, or they may startle the college world by their brilliancy, but all have a recognized ability to find fault. It is not this spirit of mere growling, however, that is at the root of the present dissatisfaction with our marking system. There are evils in that department that justify a more earnest and rational remonstrance than that of the college grumbler...