Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This quotation comes from the annual report to President Lowell for the year 1926-27, of R. T. Fisher, director of the Forest. "That it may not be unduly extravagent one is encouraged to believe from the number and quality of the visitors who resort to the forest," he continues. "During the present year the Forest has been shown to more than 150 men, most of them scientific or professional, who came to Petersham to study the demonstrations of forestry in practice or the methods of research. Among them were the chief of the U. S. Forest Service with...
...Although unnoticed in the press, and not altogether desiring such publicity, this Observatory played no mean part in obtaining information for Trans-Atlantic flights subsequent to the first" . . . is a statement contained in the annual, report for 1926-27 to President Lowell by A. G. McAdie '84, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory...
...report to the President this year, Director McAdie advocated that it would be beneficial to Harvard and to science, for the University authorities to consider the establishment of a Division of Aerography, "separate and distinct from Geography, Geology or Physics. This would place Harvard in a commanding position in a new field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done...
Jeritza said she had gone to Paris against her will, at the pleading of: 1) the director of the Vienna Opera Company; 2) her mother-in-law, Baroness von Popper of Paris; 3) the Austrian Government. But when she reached Paris no Austrian delegation met her train; no critics were invited to her performances; her operatic stature was in no way suitably emphasized. Jeritza refused the little medal she had been offered. She said...
...shall never sing again in Viennese opera. . . . I shall sing again in Paris if they ask me. I was received there enthusiastically by the public, but I don't know why I deserved the insulting treat-ment accorded me by the Austrian Legation and Director Schneiderhahn of the Vienna Opera...