Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soledad station is the Atkins Institution, a branch of the Arnold Arboretum. This station provides opportunity for botanical and zoological research, most of which is carried on in collaboration with the tropical stations of other colleges. Special emphasis is placed on the study of economic plants, with one hundred acres of the Institutions devoted solely to these. This station has had influence on the economic destiny of Cuba, for the study of sugar cane has enabled the Cubans to produce a better grade of sugar cane and to maintain its place at the head of the sugar industry...
...Public Library has a $50,000,000 endowment and is subsidized by the City of New York to maintain 48 branch libraries. Its best collections are those on baseball, poultry, the theatre, Americana, Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Isaak Walton. With 12,000 people in & out every day, its central building is probably the world's busiest...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-Branch Cabell-McBride ($2.50). Letters to vari- ous historical characters, by the now well-known ghostwriter for the late James Branch Cabell. To MY SONS-Harold Bell Wright- Harper ($2). A household word writes his autobiography for his sons, with a few thousand other readers in mind...
...space of two months it is practically impossible to gain more than a superficial knowledge of the routine of a government office. Nor is the contact with the leaders of the various departments of much more practical value. Those men are generally extremely capable administrators of their own particular branch of work yet totally incapable of seeing their work in proper perspective. They are practicioners rather than theorists. What little information they have to offer can often be more profitably gained from the careful reading of a departmental pamphlet. The plan is further complicated by the fact that men must...
...Tuesday afternoon plans got under way when students and teachers from various institutions met with Christian A. Herter '14, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Association's Boston branch. A Harvard committee was formed consisting of John H. Morison '35, Henry Walston, Arthur R. Humphries 2G, Comstock Glaser '35, Peregrine White 1L, Gilbert Kerlin '32, a second year law student, and David Riesman, Jr. '31. The committee hopes to organize several luncheon tables, under the tutelage of Carl J. Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, William P. Maddox, instructor in Government, and Merle Fainsed, instructor in Government, to talk over the topic...