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March 15--Future Faculty Dean Watt visits Cambridge to get acquainted with the terrain. He takes particular care to visit the Harvard Forest and the Arnold Arboretum, and listens with great attention as Crimson Key tour guide tells him about last year's controversy over ivy on the Houses. He says little during the visit, but pronounces himself eager to "get in there and start shaking up all these dusty old profs...
...excrement. Samples of bee feces collected at Harvard bore striking similarities--in size, general appearance, and specific characteristics--to samples and descriptions of samples of spots said to be yellow rain, according to Meselson and four other scientists--including. Harvard botanist Peter S. Ashton, director of the Arnold Arboretum...
Peter Ashton, associate professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, and Mark Leighton, assistant professor of Anthropology, attended the conference along with Constable and scientists from various European countries, Israel and Australia...
...Tucson, Carleton Admissions Director Dick Steele discovered that lanky Eric Schocket was a cross-country runner. Said Steele: "We have a brand-new, $250,000 all-weather track and a 450-acre arboretum that is laced with running and cross-country-skiing tracks." Eric was impressed but said he wanted to become an engineer. Steele suggested that he think about attending a small liberal arts school that also had a strong engineering program and mentioned Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Eric was even more impressed. Said he later: "That's the first time I've heard a college...
...Anne DeFailly, a native of England who now lives in Cambridge, plans to go tobogganing in the Peter Hill section of Harvard's Arboretum in Boston. A few city school children yesterday recommended the slopes near Fresh Pond in North Cambridge for sledding...