Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Atkins has made a generous offer of certain very rich land on his estate for the prosecution of experiments in the cultivation of tropical plants, and it is probable that the directors of the Botanic Garden will avail themselves of it. There is now so much interest felt in the production of tropical foods, fruits and fibres, that a branch garden, under the direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, might prove attractive and very useful. The whole subject is now receiving careful consideration and the most favored plan contemplates the establishment, in southern Cuba, of an experiment station which could...
...reclaimed land, which is now covered with gravel, will be plowed up in the spring and brought under cultivation, and in case the ground is then found fertile enough to grow grass, the tract of fifteen acres will be added to the "play ground...
...James Stillman. Towards the cost of the land and building for an infirmary...
...American School at Rome, now in its fifth year, as a representative American institution in a foreign land and dependent upon Americans very largely for its support justly claims the interest of all our universities. It has passed the experimental stage and already endowment funds are being quietly collected which will put the school on a sound financial basis. It is growing in every direction. The library is admirably selected and constantly receiving valuable additions...
Joseph Willard was president in 1800 with a salary of $1400 a year, in addition to fees for degrees and grants of land; Ebenezer Storer was treasurer; and Doctors J. Lathrop, S. Howard, E. Pearson, and Judges J. Lowell and O. Wendell were serving on the Corporation. The College was under the control of the State, its Overseers being composed of the governor, lieutenant-governor, council and senate of the commonwealth, and the ministers of Congregational churches in Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, Roxbury and Dorchester...