Word: ten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water...
...Committee of Ten was appointed for the investigation of secondary schools by the national Educational Association in 1892. President Eliot was chosen chairman of this committee...
...Jack will conduct a series of lectures and field meetings at the Arnold Arboretum during May and June for the purpose of supplying popular instruction about trees and shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at ten o'clock and on Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 4, and closing June 22. The class will assemble each day in the lecture room of the Bussey Institution, where a review will be given of certain groups of trees and shrubs. It will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries...
...twelve feet square. These are to be used by the professors. Two or three steps more lead to another and longer landing hall. This leads to two recitation rooms. They are about 27 by 38 feet in size. These rooms are well lighted. There are about a dozen windows ten feet high and four feet wide. The walls are wainscoted in hard pine and painted, as is the woodwork throughout the building, brownish drab...
...first floor. On the third and last floor from the head of the stairs there is a mosaic tiled corridor leading to the study room. This is directly over the recitation rooms, and is 70 by 30 feet. To the right of the study is a space about ten feet wide, partitioned by a panelled screen. Rising from this screen is a colonnade. The columns are of fine proportions and of the Corinthian order. On these columns rests an appropriate entablature. This room is to be fitted with tables and chairs, and here students may prepare for recitations or consult...