Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening speech by Governor Saltonstall '14 and the participation in the conference of several faculty members, Francis T. Spaulding, professor of Education, will chair a session on progress in the wider use of schools for recreation. Nature activities will hear the views of Donald Wyman, horticulturist at Arnold Arboretum. James A. Michener, professor of Education will lead a discussion on "Relation of Recreation to Democracy," while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music will lead the session on music...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...died on the way or shortly after arrival. Concluding that adult insects could not be colonized,* Mary Ellen arranged to have 600 larvae shipped to Seattle, to mature after reaching there. It was from these larvae that the 200 first-hatched insects flew out of their box in the arboretum last week...
...overlapping. Fluid funds are the solution. They would make possible research projects which need the cooperation of several fields. An excellent example is the Cabot Foundation for research in plant breeding, which gives Harvard a free hand and thus permits expenditure in several departments, including the Forest, Arnold Arboretum, and the Biological Laboratory. Moreover, unrestricted funds can support scholars, like the proposed University Professors, whose horizon is not limited to a single department, who can extend their activities over a number...
According to Donald Wyman '20, Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum, there is no place like New England in the Fall. "Now England," he says, "is unusually fortunate in being located in one of the few regions of the earth where there is a brilliant Autumn color...