Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family playboy. The others graduated from Marietta College at 19; Beman did not graduate at all. He organized one of the nation's great oil companies (Pure Oil), then left most of its management to Henry. Beman preferred to find strange new trees and shrubs for his arboretum near Columbus, Ohio. Both Beman and Henry have had a taste of public life- Beman as a Congressman from Ohio (1905-09), Henry as President Harding's Comptroller of the Currency...
This is not a vision of forgotten, far off things, nor is it a gratuitous advertisement of the local charms of New Hampshire. It is the Arnold Arboretum, at the other side of Boston, on any Spring day, a place more talked of than visited by Harvard men, though even the Yard with its trees and its few remaining grassplots and its memories must yield to it. They little know of Harvard who only Harvard know, and have not seen the lilacs in bloom, or that side of the university where beauty is more than scholarship, and pedantry is harmlessly...
...Ivan Murray Johnston, who took his Ph.D. in 1925, is a research associate at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The problem of the dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere, and the manner in which plants in the western United States were transferred to Central America will occupy Dr. Johnston's time during the year that the Fellowship covers...
...anniversary of the two hundredth birthday of George Washington, in 1932, could be much more fittingly marked by the establishments of community forests rather than by high price trees of doubtful history," writes J. G. Jack in a recent number of the Arnold Arboretum bulletin, in discussing alleged descendants of "the so-called Washington...
...first tea on Friday, November 13, at Phillips Brooks House are officers of the administration: members of the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Zoology, Physiology, and Geology; University Library and University Press officials; and those affiliated with the Bussey Institute, the Botanic Garden, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, and the University Museum...