Word: arboretum
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There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth...
...funeral of Professor Charles Sprague Sargent '62, Arnold Professor of Arboriculture and Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will take place at St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel in Brookline tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock...
...coordinate existing facilities--the Arnold Arboretum, the Herbarium, the University Museum, the Bussey Institute, the department of biology--into an academic organization which will foster scientific research into agricultural problems is an improvement for which there is apparently a real need and to which there can be no valid objection. Professor East's recommendation states clearly, however, that "it must not be thought that the carrying out" of such suggestions "will make Harvard the place for graduate study in agriculture that it ought to be." His further recommendation that $12,000,000 be expended to make Harvard such a place...
...gift of $100,000 to the University, made by an anonymous denor, has just been received, it was announced Saturday. Of this sum, $50,000 is for the permanent fund of the Arnold Arboretum, the income to be used for current expenses and the remainder to establish a George Lincoln Goodale Fund of which the income will be used in meeting current expenses of the Boisnical Museum...
...Washington Elm is not to die. A scion of that famous tree will be planted on the original site. This is Boston's gift to the city of Cambridge. The tree is now growing at Charlestown Heights where it was planted in 1905 from the Arnold Arboretum and presented to the Boston Park Department. During its years of growth, the tree has received the best of care and is a remarkably sturdy specimen. Washington's birthday has been set for the date of transplanting...