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...teens, Liberty Hyde Bailey made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over...
From Education: In the fields of education and cultural activities, women play a major part. The Institute's speaker on this theme is Mildred Helen McAfee (Mrs. Douglas Hor-ton), the "Captain Mac" who organized, trained and bossed 86,000 WAVES, is now again the president of Wellesley College. She believes that colleges (in which she has spent almost all of her adult life) are the place to start to right wrongs in the postwar world...
FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE-Paul Hor-gan-Harper...