Word: tree
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil, over which Petrarch is said to have planted a laured tree. At Naples flourished the critic Laurentius Valla, who afterwards lived in Rome under the patronage of Pope Nicholas...
...Seymour, of the Cryptogamic Herbarium, will lead a natural history walk today from the Cherry Hill station through the woods to study lichens, mosses, ferns and other cryptogams, especially tree-attacking fungi. The walk will be open to all members of the University. Men may go either by bicycle (distance about 11 miles), meeting in the Square at 9 A. M., or by train leaving North Cambridge Junction at 10.22 A. M. Returning trains arrive at North Cambridge Junction...
...Nagasaki. While studying in China he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death. One day he noticed a willow tree bending under a weight of snow but with none of the branches breaking. So in accordance with this idea and what he had learned in China he established the famous Yoshin-riu--"the spirit of the willow tree school." In Japan the art is only taught to men of great moral...
...Seniors assemble in front of Holworthy for Tree exercises...
...LECTURE. "Hamlet" on the Modern Stage. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 P. M. The Hamlets of Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, M. Mounet-Sully, Mr. Beerbohm, Tree, and Mr. E. H. Sothern will be briefly considered in this lecture...