Word: forests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, editor of "Garden and Forest," is editing the miscellaneous scientific papers of Asa Gray. The first volume, which will appear in the spring, will contain the late professor's reviews of works in botany and related subjects between...
...hills of one of the interior coast ranges. In addition to the immediate surroundings of the university, the plan embraces an arboretum in which it is proposed to gather the arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve as a model to planters on the Pacific coast. The arboretum will doubtless become to the university and to the Pacific slope what the Arnold Arboretum here in Boston is to be to Harvard University and the northern Atlantic slope. Senator Stanford has decided...
...college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees. The petition was from the Princeton Eleven asking permission to play Yale...
...exercises of commencement week will be as follows: Sunday, June 24, 3 p. m.- Sermon to the graduating class by Rev. Dr. Edward Y. Hincks. (De Forest prize at Yale.) Monday, June 25-Vigintennial reunion of the class of '68; Philo exhibition in the evening. Tuesday, June 26, a. m.- Class day exercises; 3 p. m., exhibition of the graduating class...
Professor G. L. Goodale will this evening deliver the ninth of his course of Lowell Institute lectures on "Forests and Forest Products." The subject will be "The Cultivation of Forests...