Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reel film portraying activities in the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cuba, one of the most distant outposts of the University, has just been released by the University Film Foundation. The picture, which was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. E. F. Atkins of Belmont who financed the expedition, was photographed by W. O. Field '26 and directed by Professor Oakes Ames...
...Harvard Botanical Garden is a place of study for scientists the world over. In it, are specimens of most of the tropical plants of the world. In addition, experiments of great value in the propagation of plants are being constantly carried...
Located near Cienfuegos, the Garden was established in 1900 by E. F. Atkins of Boston to increase the knowledge of tropical plants and to improve the varieties of sugar cane. The main purpose for the establishment of the Garden, however, was to develop the sugar cane industry...
...large well-sheltered garden and orchard for students addicted to planting; an ergasterium for mechanical fancies; and a laboratory chemical for those philosophers, that by their senses would culture their understandings, are in our design, for the students to spend their times of recreation in them; for, readings on notions only are but husky provender...
Perhaps, in time, his student body will follow the faculty to the foot of the tree of knowledge and to the exit from the garden of Eden, and leave Dr. Shields the snake and an apple core...