Word: tree
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arboretum will doubtless become to the university and to the Pacific slope what the Arnold Arboretum here in Boston is to be to Harvard University and the northern Atlantic slope. Senator Stanford has decided to devote to the arboretum as much space as is needed to contain every tree that can be made to grow in that climate with the aid of irrigation. The trees are to be planted in open order, and arranged with siestas and views, so that the place will have the features of a pleasure ground in addition to its scientific character...
...class of '89 at Yale have set out an elm tree between Dwight and Alumni Halls. A dedicatory speech was made by R. J. Luce of the senior class...
...custom of cremating Analytical Geometry has been revived by the sophomores at Amherst. The whole class, attired in fantastic costumes, assembled last Monday evening, and held a trial at which the Geometry was pronounced guilty. It was then seized, carried to the class tree, and placed upon a funeral pyre, and the sophomores joined in a war dance while the book was being cremated. Nearly ninetenths of the class were conditioned at the examination...
...strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger she is. She has come to what she is, because she is a growth and not a creation. She has grown to it. She is like a tree that spreads out its branches and extends its roots down deep into the earth. So has Yale done, and how rich are her fruits...
Della Upsilon, in Holden Chapel, after the tree exercises-Messrs J. I. Bennett, H. B. Drake, J. R. Eldridge, A. T. Johnson, H. R. Miles, H. M. Plummer...