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...Botanical Museum were represented in the announcement, Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...
Exploiting new fields in botany along the recently completed 1,500 mile Alaskan Military Highway, two botanical expeditions under the auspices of the University's Arnold Arboretum collected 28,000 specimens, announced Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany and Administrator of the Botanical Collections, in his annual report issued yesterday...
Recent camouflage techniques employ the use of natural vegetation in the combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
Among the men appointed are two from South America, Armando Dugand, and Raymon Ferreyra. Both will work at the Arnold Arboretum. Other appointees are Richard P. Scowcroft, A.M. Harvard '41, John F. Leisher, A.M. Harvard '42, who will be teaching fellows in English, Andreas G. Papandreou, of Athens, Greece, and John A. Stovel, of Canada, both of whom will teach economics, and Daniel L. Horowitz, who will serve as lecturer on Industrial Relations...
...college. In a region where State universities predominate, Carleton (cost: $850 a year) is considered a rich boys' & girls' college, but President Cowling tolerates no swank. His students are forbidden cars, have no fraternities or sororities, devote themselves to such simple amusements as blanket parties in the Arboretum (a campus park). Freshmen wear little green caps (boys) or green mittens (girls...