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Despite his 76 years, Luther Burbank, great naturalist, is constantly busy with botanical researches, experiments and observations, publishing freely his results (TIME Jan. 18, SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a personal creed of welldoing and a God who is one to love and not to fear. Further, he has a hearty, outspoken, incisive contempt for many religious creeds and dogmas, especially the theory of predestination...
...Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn...
...Luther Burbank, 76 years old, said to visitors at the year's close: "I can say that I am satisfied with my year's work, for I must be satisfied. The year is done, and it has been one of my busiest. I have worked and enjoyed every day of it. But I will go on with the new year." His recreations are botanizing and music...
Additions have been made to the training table, which was started last evening at the Varsity Club. Twenty men are on the list, which has been made up as follows: P. E. Berglund '26, J. H. Broome '26, B. G. Burbank '28, Edmund Burke '26, H. W. Burns '28, E. F. Clark '28, S. M. Clark '26, L. O. Combs '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, S. B. Jones '26, C. G. T. Lundell '27, R. G. Luctmann '28, J. M. Potter '26, C. A. Pratt '28, D. J. Quirk '28, E. P. Renouf '28, K. P. Smith...
...numbers: "Our Director," by Bigelow; "Russian Folksongs--Volga Boatmen's Song," by Dubinushka; "Suite for String Orchestra," by Grieg; "March of the Little Lead Soliders," by Pierne; "Espana Valse," by Waldyenfel; "Triumphal March," by Grieg; Cello Solo by J. M. Barnes '29, and a Specialty Xylophone solo by Scott Burbank...