Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...argument that a three or four minute walk is a matter of no moment, and that the few minutes we might spend in the club, if it were in a central location, are of little account beside the afternoons and evenings which are "free to most of us" and which conceivably would be spend in the club, shows nothing but the writer's misconception of the purpose and function of the Harvard Union. The men whose frequent presence in the Harvard Union is necessary to its greatest success are not men who can often afford an entire afternoon or evening...
...suggestions that have been made with regard to the location of the Harvard Union, none have pointed out sites at once central and commanding. If we were willing to part with Dane Hall or Wadsworth House, should we also be willing to put what is to become the centre of all College life in a position where it would be cramped for space and where even the handsomest building must appear at a decided disadvantage? A man who has the proper conception of what the Harvard Union should be, cannot, on reflection, wish to put it off in a small...
...university to be 2673, divided as follows: The college, 706; medical school, 682; law school, 312; graduate school, 172. There is an increasing number of students from Latin-American countries due, in part, to circulars of information regarding the university recently translated into Spanish and circulated in Central and South America and the West Indies...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...
...museum. There will be a series of photographs of the rooms and specimen cases, and a series of bromide enlargements showing the explorations in the field. The latter group, which will show the explorations as they are conducted, will cover the excavations of the ruins of Yucatan and Central America and the mounds and burial places in portions of the United States and Central America...