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...mile, J. N. Watters '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, A. H. O'Neil '28, E. B. Boyce '28, W. L. Tibbetts '26, R. G. Luttman '28; jumps, S. B. Jones '26, Charles Jenney '26; pole vault, L. O. Combs '26, F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, R. R. Impaik '28, R. B. Hocking '28; weight events, C. A. Pratt '28, M. A. Cheek '26, W. P. Locke '27, F. W. Dorman '26, T. R. Hull '26, P. E. Berglund '26, Edmund Burke '26, C. H. Bradford...
...Luther Burbank . . . they say he forgot heaven and hell. . . . I say that Burbank gave back to God all that God gave him. If he had to stop and take care of heaven and hell, they must be puny institutions indeed...
...will be a meeting in the Faculty Room of University Hall, at which members of the Faculty and certain prominent undergraduates will deliver brief addresses. Dean C. N. Greenough '98 will open the meeting as the first representative of the Faculty. Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 and Professor H. H. Burbank G. '15 will be the other speakers from the Faculty...
...Luther Burbank's home and gardens are at Santa Rosa, about 40 miles north of San Francisco...
...plant-breeder's best fruits are his last. Many of the Burbank experiments - on nuts, forest trees, fruits, flowers - were incomplete at his death. Only last year he announced that he expected the decade that lay before him to be his most valuable to society - the fruition of work begun 10 and 15 years ago. It is 21 years ago that the Carnegie Institution awarded him $10,000 a year for ten years to carry on his work; 14 years since the Government turned over to him 7,680 acres of land. During his last illness (heart weakness induced...