Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, possibly the oldest institution of its kind in the United States, has been transferred to the Department of Botany, according to an official statement of President Lowell given out yesterday at University Hall...
Heading the work of the Garden is R. H. Woodworth, instructor in Botany, who replaces S. F. Hamblin, assistant professor in the School of Landscape Architecture, formerly instructor in Horticulture and Director of the Garden...
...Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back...
Yenching University, which is chartered under the laws of New York, is situated several miles outside the walls of this city, in what was formerly the garden of a Manchu prince...