Word: beech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Micmac Indian for "the place where branches are torn off the trees by bears gathering beech-nuts...
...United States. Here instructors and students work together under actual forest conditions at all seasons of the year. The area around Petersham, Massachusetts, where the forest is located, has varied and interesting conditions of forest cover, soil, and topography Containing a great number of trees species--the beech, birches and maples of the northern zone and the oak, hickory, and chestnut of the central zone, this is an ideal location for Harvard's graduate school of Forestry. Silviculture studies in progress at Petersham are aimed at profitable methods or scientific care of handling a forest as a perpetual crop...
Better a Blind Mule. The day school opened, Old Sawney squatted on his heels beneath a beech tree, while new boys paraded past-as many as 75 in 90 minutes. The principal shot a question or two at each one, then tipped off his teachers as to which ones were likely mischiefmakers, and which ones would be poor students. He was usually right...
Study halls were open air whenever the weather permitted. Said Sawney: "I would rather make my living plowing on a steep, rocky hillside with a blind mule than imprison innocent children." Part of a thicket was ruled off for the principal's "office," where malefactors met with a beech switch. When a parent criticized this "barbaric" teaching method, he replied: "I'll continue to use it as long as they keep sending me young barbarians to educate...
...with the help of other Jews in Belfast and Dublin, Leo Scop, a silver-haired, Russian-born Belfast Jew, had wangled an abandoned farm site, set his first colonists to clearing it of overgrown sycamore and beech, built barns and kitchens, poultry runs and hutments...