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...Joseph Francis Rock, botanist. ... LL.D...
...particularly for the annual presentations of the great Bach Mass, all credit is due Director John Frederick Wolle. Like Bach, Director Wolle comes from a long line of musical ancestors. His great-grandfather and his grandfather were organists in the church at Bethlehem. His father was a clergyman, a botanist. When Director "Fred" had his choice
Products. Among famed U. S. children who have been educated under the Montessori methods are the grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera...
...systematic botanist, this region, which has never been glaciated or was glaciated only during an early glacial advance, is dramatically interesting; for, as we are now learning to expect, in such regions there are hundreds of plants now living which are so conservative that they have never migrated into the adjacent regions recently covered by Wisconsin...
These "thrillers" are so numerous in western Newfoundland that the field-botanist is always on the qui vive, and it is a rare and poor day when novel plants of great scientific interest are not brought in. Then follows a full day, or perhaps two days, indoors, putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that...