Word: foresters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last week, introducing no change of policy in management or of form in publication. Baldwin, '84, who has been tutoring the sophomores and freshmen in French the last year, has accepted the call of the chair of Metaphysics at Lake Forest. The senior vacation for several weeks before Commencement began yesterday, and in consequence there is an empty block of pews in chapel. With your present rules, are not your pews wedded to a pretty permanent emptiness...
...distributed, the particulars may be omitted here, with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...
There is a part of this University which is unknown to many students, and that is the Bussey Institute. It is situated about six miles from Harvard Square, at Forest Hills, in a well cultivated, but picturesque region. The Institute was created from a fund left by Mr. Bussey...
Great stress is laid on the necessity of redeeming barren land by planting forest trees. American farmers have not yet realized the ruin they have inflicted by their indiscriminate destruction of forests making otherwise valuable land sterile and barren. At the Bussey Farm tracts of waste land have been planted with trees which are now quite flourishing...
...wise, and thanks Him that He has put it into the hearts of men to "build this academy," and that "amid all the discouragement the work has gone forward," until the edifice, "now a temple of beauty, lifts its proud turrets above the oaks of the forest." But this paean abruptly changes into a confession, as follows...