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...yard low hurdles were also won by Clarke, with Knight taking third place. Bauldin Burbank '28, with a 5-yard handicap, came in second...
...pole-vault was won by W. H. Cleaver '29, with 11 feet 3 inches. L. O. Combs '26 and Bolding Burbank '28 each made vaults of 11 feet, placing second, while R. R. Imping '28 placed third by clearing 10 feet 9 inches. Both Burbank and Combs were at scratch, however, while Cleaver was aided by a 15 inch handicap...
...Burbank, G. '15, Associate Professor of Economics, for two years, for an investigation of the history of the direct or general property tax in Massachusetts...
Manufacturer Ford had suggested it. So had Inventor Edison. Their good friend, Horticulturist Luther Burbank, last week virtually decided upon it-to sell his extensive experimental gardens at Santa Rosa, Calif., not to commercial interests (that course never entered his head), not to a great and eager Eastern university ("probably Harvard"), nor yet to the University of Southern California (though that institution made "elaborate overtures"), but surely to a university whose scientists would maintain and perpetuate his labors, and what more appropriate than to Leland Stanford Jr. University, where of recent years he, the world's plant wizard...
...best of health at 76, Mr. Burbank has no idea of remitting his labors. Most men at 76 consider it an honor to be termed "spry." Mr. Burbank is better than spry-he is agile, can stand on his head. This month will round out his 50th year at Santa Rosa, where, aided by the Carnegie Foundation, the Burbank Society and a Federal land grant, he has directed the evolution of plant life so patiently and ingeniously as to produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny...