Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to classify properly a number of obscure species of tropical American plants, Professor Robinson, the curator of the Gray Herbarium, while abroad this summer, spent considerable time examining the types which are preserved in the various European collections. There so called types are the original plants, which such early scientific explorers as Mocino, Lagasca, Alauran, and others, took home with them as specimens of the new world's flora. Since, in botany, classification rests upon a historical basis, any one who first describes a new plant has the right to give that plant a scientific name, which, thereafter, must...
...Peabody Museum received last week a box of Pueblo Indian relics from Arizona. Dr. Frank Russell, instructor in Anthropology, spent last summer in Arizona and collected these relics from the ruins of ancient Pueblo villages. He visited the ruins of about seventy large and small villages, some of which once contained over 1000 inhabitants. The villages are on the Moki Indian Reservation on the Colorado River. Dr. Russell's collection will prove to be of especial value, since the Pueblo relics are gradually being destroyed by traders. The Indian Department has recently prohibited any exploration in this region...
...next kick-off and a number of short gains took the ball to the second team's five yard line, but here Devens fumbled. Mifflin tried to punt, but Lawrence blocked and Hallowell fell on the ball, scoring a touchdown. The remaining five minutes of the game were spent in defensive work against the guards-back formation...
...Conference last night Professor Davis gave an account of his excursion to the region of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River last June in company with Professor Dodge of Columbia and Dr. Gregory of Yale. The party entered the plateau region at Flagstaff station on the south and spent twenty-two days in camp, travelling in wagons and on horseback at an average rate of twenty-five miles a day. They crossed the Colorado at Lee's Ferry and went out on the north at Milford...
...eleven. On the first kick-off in the second half L. Daly fumbled and Devens got the ball on the thirty yard line. A fifteen yard plunge by Devens and an end run for the same distance by Derby scored the last touchdown. The rest of the half was spent in work with the guards back...