Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over their pavilions to Montreal, and Mayor Jean Drapeau, the originator of Expo, is casting about for ways to make the island sites into a permanent summertime exhibit and tourist attraction. Among his envisioned lures: Buckminster Fuller's U.S. geodesic dome, converted into the world's largest arboretum and aviary...
Although he had been a member of the Harvard Corporation, Clark was one of the prime movers against Harvard in the Arnold Arboretum case, which ended last February...
...Arnold Arboretum suit--brought eight years ago to compel the University to return 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to Jamaica Plain--is argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Timothy Leary, making his first public appearance here in two-and-one-half-years, says that he is beginning to understand the simplest means "by which an individual can be induced to get out beyond his mind." Henry A. Kissinger goes to Vietnam...
...Psychology Department replaces its introductory course and adds several middle-level courses to give students more time for experimental work. The Supreme Judicial Court splits 3-2 in deciding the Arboretum case in Harvard's favor. The new Gen Ed committee votes to expand its lower-level program. The HUC polls users of Lamont and finds that 62 per cent oppose the admission of girls...
...trust under which Harvard runs the Arboretum was established in 1872 under the will of James B. Arnold of New Bedford. The Arboretum was established on, and still occupies, 265 acres in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston...