Word: directors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...displayed the specimens which illustrate the relations of plants of air, water, and soil; to heat, light, electricity, chemism, and gravitation. In this room will also come the illustrations of plants to the lower animals, a scheme which would be impossible of accomplishment without the cooperation of the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mr. Agassiz has expressed his willingness to transfer to this room all necessary specimens, and this assistance secures success...
...February number of the Century Magazine devotes several pages to opinions by distinguished men on Professor Charles S. Sargent's plan for preserving the forests of the United States. Professor Sargent is director of the Arnold Arboretum and has given much of his time to the study of the subject. His plan has four features, the establishment at West Point of a chair of forestry, with supplementary practical work, the purchase of an experimental forest reservation, the assignment of educated officers to supervision of such reservation, and the enlistment of a special forest guard...
...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4. - Professor Jacobi, instructor in fencing at Yale, has resigned and will leave the university at once. The Department of Fencing was instituted just a year ago and he was invited to take charge by Professor Anderson, director of the new gymnasium. Fencing has not proved popular at Yale and lack of interest is the cause of the abandonment of classes in that branch of athletics. Professor Jacobi will probably return to France where the science he teaches is more popular...
...MANSFIELD, Sec.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Sailor Mission. The president of the Tea Wharf Association has offered us the Director's Hall to hold our mission meetings among the sailors. The names of the men who will go out on Sunday are posted on the bulletin in Holden Chapel. Regular meeting in Holden Chapel on Saturday, at 7 p. m. Any member of the University is cordially invited to go with us. We start every Sunday at 9 a. m., sharp, from Harvard Square...
...forty - ninth annual report of the director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory for eleven months ending September 30, 1894, has just been published. The most important events of the year have been the practical trial of the Bruce telescope and the successful operation for several months of the Boyden meteorological station on the summit of the Misti, at a height of 19,200 feet. Unfortunately, early in September the shelter containing the instruments was found to have been broken into and a number of the instruments carried off. Apparently the robbery was committed by two Indians. The property stolen would...