Word: soils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system...
...subjects of the lectures that Prof. Geo. L. Goodale will give before the Lowell Institute this year are as follows: "The Structure of the Plant;" "Relation of Plants to Water;" "Relations to the Soil;" "Relations of Air and Light;" "Relations to Air and Warmth;" "Most Favorable Conditions for Vegetable Activity;" "Conditions of Permanence, Means of Defence;" "Former Climates and Floras, and their Relations to Ours;" "The Floras of Extremes of Climate; The Frigid Zone, Deserts;" "The Flora of an Equitable Climate - The Equatorial Belt;" "The Flora of Variable Climates - The Temperate Zones;" "Acclimatization and Culture - The Production and Perpetuation...
...vigorous crusade has been set on foot lately, against that outgrowth of young Americanism, "slang," which has crept even into busy Lasell, and, strange to say, has seemed to find congenial soil, for it has flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with...
CAMBRIDGE is no more than twelve miles from Concord, and yet there are students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack...
...along. But now comes the saddest chapter in this mournful tale; a very sad chapter, and of course there's a woman in it. It was a melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked a young lady and young gentleman...