Word: chiefs
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...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Division of Forestry, will speak on "Forestry as a Profession," on Friday, March 2, probably in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
...tastes. The fallacy ought to be evident. All instruction which is good must be interesting--but it does not follow that all instruction which is interesting must also be good. To do what we like to do--that needs no pedagogical encouragement: water always runs down hill. . . . The chief point is, I think, that great dangers exist, and that the psycho-pedagogical movement does most damage, not because it so much affects the teacher, but because it, together with the elective studies, turns the attention of the public from the only essential and important point upon which, I feel deeply...
...second of the Civil Service Reform Club's smoke-talks will be held this evening at 7.45 at the Colonial Club, the speakers being Col. Charles H. Porter, member of the Massachusetts Civil-Service Commission, and Mr. Henry Sherwin, chief examiner on the same commission. The friends of members and those who wish to join the club are invited to these meetings...
...very valuable collection has recently been presented to the Peabody Museum by the heirs of David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration...
...three in Waverly and one in Lexington which have been favorably considered and there is also a possibility that the present links on the Adams estate will be put into suitable condition and re-engaged by the club. The final selection, however, will be left to the members. The chief consideration to be taken into account in the selection of links is the cost of maintenance which has been met thus far by the annual income received from about one hundred and fifty members paying $20 each. In 1897, when the Watertown links were used free of charge the membership...