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...Hamblin, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, and discharged Director of the Botanic Garden said yesterday that he had been assured that some such requests will be made, and the president of one of Boston's Garden Clubs, when reached by telephone late yesterday, said that such action was being seriously considered by her group, but that as yet no definite steps had been taken...
...Hamblin yesterday clarified his position with reference to the recent situation which led to the temporary closing of the Garden, and questioned several statements made by President Lowell in an official communication last week...
...first intimation that I had that there would be any change in the Garden," said Mr. Hamblin, "came with the instructions given me by Mr. Lowell on Wednesday, October 16, in relation to the closing of the gates. I find that the Visiting Committee, departmental heads, officers of the University, and also the Garden Clubs and other people interested in giving for the Garden, knew nothing of this decision...
According to Mr. Hamblin, plans are now being made to build a bigger botanic garden somewhere else, as an outlet for the enthusiasm for gardening, and to divert feeling in the present situation. "Whether or not the Garden can be used for anything other than a botanic garden is for the proper officials to say," was his statement. "The public will soon center its interests on something else...
...longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...