Word: arboretum
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...Philip Hale's column of the "Herald" Saturday, a correspondent remarked that it one wanted to know the significance of Pippa's. "All's right with the world," it was only necessary to go to the Aroboretum on a warm spring day. Like the Glass Flowers, the Arnold Arboretum is something that students are more familiar with by name than by experience. Outsiders make it a Mecca to be numbered with the Paul Revere House and the Museum of Fine Arts; but the student who has spent four years here without ever seeing it is only one of many...
...Arboretum, which is the property of the University, covers a large acreage in Jamaica Plain. It is devoted to experiment with trees and flowering shrubs; a large collection has been gathered from all parts of the world, for the purpose of determining which types are adapted to growth in the New England soil and climate. As a result of these investigations, the staff of the Arboretum has been able to offer real assistance to nurserymen and private growers in the vicinity, and has succeeded in introducing several new specimens of trees and shrubs to this region of the country...
...external eye, the Arboretum remains simply as an attractive park full of luxuriant and unusual blossoms. The present display of lilacs, and the rhododendroms and azaleas which follow soon after, are the most famous of the exhibits. Thousands visit it each year, approaching it by automobile through the Fenway or by elevated to the Forest Hills station; this Harvard Museum of Nature is open to all throughout...
Harvard men have excellent reasons for being interested in the election. For one thing many departments of the University are in Boston and not in Cambridge, including the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Arnold Arboretum. Even the Stadium comes under the jurisdiction of Boston. And not only is part of the University actually in Boston; Harvard by tradition and the Subway is connected in more ways than one with the metropolis. What is more important, however, is that the Good Government Association, which is supporting Mr. Murphy, represents political principles which we, as supposedly educated citizens, should support...
...Harvard student is no exception to the rule. Living in the minds of an equipment that has been accumulating for almost there centuries, we are prone to underestimate some of the most interesting parts of the University. How many men, for instance, of their own initiative visit the Arnold Arboretum or the Botanic Garden? The University Museum draws visitors form all over the country; yet some Harvard men have never given even the most cursory examination to the invaluable Comparative Zoology exhibit or the Ware collection of glass flowers. Hundreds of students daily climb the main stairway of Widener...