Word: willowing
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...lived in 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...
Several of the glass models which arrived in the last invoice from Mr. Blaschko's studio, are now in place in cases on the main exhibition floor. Two of the models represent with great fidelity the galls and gall-insects of the willow...
...Hook 1G., W. D. Hopkins 3G., C. C. Rice 3G; University Scholarships, C. D. Cool 3G., J. L. Hogg 1G., G. E. Higgins 1G., E. Hunting on 1G., W. S. Hutchinson 1G., W. G. Leland 2G., L. C. Marshall 1G., L. B. Walton 1G. (resigned), H. L. Willow 1G., Austin Scholarships, L. D. Ames 2G., C. W. Doten 1G., W. T. Harris 1G. (resigned), E. Kimball 1G., C. H. Lander 1G., A. S. Patterson 1G. (resigned), E. B. T. Spencer 1G., J. E. Weatherby 1G.; Ricardo Prize Scholarship, R. G. Usher...
...thirty Norway maples and three hundred shrubs for this purpose. Both the trees and the shrubs will be placed along the North Harvard street fence and around the Lodge, and some of the shrubs will be planted in the rear of the Locker Building. As an experiment, a few willow trees have been planted in the marsh just beyond the football field, and if they grow, a large number of them will be planted to form a windbreak...
...Skinner and Dinsmore were the only ones to accomplish much with the willow. The former played a careful 16, and the latter made a rattling good 15, consisting of two fours, three twos, and a single...