Word: arboretum
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...active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...
...date 1600 plant varieties have been collected, besides a large amount of duplicates. The Farlow Herbarium with its already large collections, will chiefly benefit by these, as well as the Gray Herbarium and the Arnold Arboretum. In addition, much material will be available for exchange with other universities and museums, on both sides of the Atlantic. But more than the mere specimens, science will gain new knowledge of habits of growth, distribution, and other factors. It is expected the results of the expedition will provide a basis for several publications on taxonomy and ecology of the cryptogams
...Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals the Arnold Arboretum miles away hundreds of acres of rare and exquisite shrubs of all possible varieties; even in Arizona astronomers observer the invisible planetary phenomena. The circle widens. But at the Center is the Yard where Harvard College has its being. It was the origin of the University, it is still...
Members of the University Film Foundation board of trustees include Oakes Ames '98, supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum and director of the Botanical Museum, president of the Foundation; and as other directors Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum and of the Zoological Museum, C. P. Curtis; Jr. '13, a fellow of Harvard College, H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Edward Reynolds '81, curator of the Peabody Museum, and Alexander Hamilton Rice '98, gold medalist of the Royal Geographic Society, scientist, and explorer, who has been given an appointment at the Harvard Medical School...
...order to catch the foliage at its most advantageous stage exterior views of the Yard, the Freshman dormitories, Memorial Hall, and also of the more distant Arnold Arboretum and Botanical Gardens have been taken first. This week it is planned to use the Harvard Flying Club's plane to obtain an air survey of the various parts of the University. As soon as the exterior scenes, which include pictures of students in the Yard and on the streets, are completed, interior work in lecture rooms, tutorial conferences, the Library, and various activity centers will commence. J. A. Haeseler '23, director...