Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same studies. President Eliot gave two reasons for this state of affairs, one was that Americans are unwilling to put their boys to hard work and strong lists, and the other was that the French teachers are more numerous, more enthusiastic and better educated than our own. Matthew Arnold also wrote on the superiority of German and French education at the time when he was making an extensive study of this subject. The question at present is how to improve the schools so that the young men may go out better equipped and the whole teaching force be better trained...
Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, editor of "Garden and Forest," is editing the miscellaneous scientific papers of Asa Gray. The first volume, which will appear in the spring, will contain the late professor's reviews of works in botany and related subjects between...
...Letter on Literary Criticism" from the pen of Mr. G. R. Carpenter is one of the most valuable articles which have appeared in the Monthly. It is a study of the laws of criticism with an estimate of the influences of Saints Beuve upon Matthew Arnold. The writer's words impress upon us the dignity of the work of the true critic. The thoughts of Mr. Carpenter deserve to be taken to heart...
...summer course of the Botanical Department is well supplying a longfelt need, and the new quarters of this department will render it even more efficient. Owing to the delay of the Park Commissioners in building roads, the Arnold Arboretum was delayed the past summer in its work of planting trees...
...arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve as a model to planters on the Pacific coast. The arboretum will doubtless become to the university and to the Pacific slope what the Arnold Arboretum here in Boston is to be to Harvard University and the northern Atlantic slope. Senator Stanford has decided to devote to the arboretum as much space as is needed to contain every tree that can be made to grow in that climate with the aid of irrigation. The trees...