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Springing from an idea born sixty-two years ago in the brain of Asa Gray, distinguished botanist, the germ of summer education has spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences...
Engaged. William Stewart Thomas, 21, son of Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas: and Mary Gabrielle Campbell, 20, Manhattan socialite. Engaged. John Paschall Davis, 24, son of U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman H. Davis: and Evelyn Ames, 23, socialite daughter of Professor Oakes Ames, Harvard botanist...
...astonishing aspect of the giant Thompson clover is that it should have been discovered so tardily in the U. S., a thoroughly botanized nation. It may be, opined Smithsonian Botanist Conrad Vernon Morton, "one of the last conspicuous new plants to be discovered...
...Author- David Garnett's father Edward was a critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come...
...unusual intellectual distinction, Mr. Lane had more than the wide scholarship necessary for his profession. He was an expert botanist, a gifted painter, and a remarkably fine reader and actor. That he should have found time for these things in addition to his important life work is a tribute to his extraordinary versatility and to the vitality of his interests. The loss of a man who has contributed so much to the University in so many ways will be keenly felt...