Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Beside providing a sure means of entry into the government service, the School of Forestry opens a way into the lumber business. So highly do the lumber interests of Massachusetts regard the School that they have made possible two chairs for assistant professors...
...Forest School has been greatly strengthened during the present academic year by the addition to the teaching staff of Austin Cary, Lecturer on Lumbering and Forest Engineering, and Edward E. Carter, Assistant Professor of Forestry. These two men possess, in addition to marked ability in special fields of technical work, a comprehensive and intimate acquaintance with the organization and management of the lumber business and the National Forest Service, the two great fields in which foresters find employment...
...professional course in Forestry offered by the Forest School is now a well-balanced one and aims to make its students familiar with the theoretical principles of forestry and their application, and to give them substantial experience in logging and the lumber business. The course is particularly designed to meet the increasing demand on the part of the National and State Forest Service, the lumber companies, and private individuals for men of technical training in forestry who are sufficiently familiar with the lumber business to aid in solving the problems of the conservative management of forest property. For admission...
...that eminent feuilletonist, "nine lady sports all dressed in green." The seduction--"His Room-mate's Side of It"--is merely vulgar and uncharacteristic. An artist may sometimes feel inclined to experiment with this kind of subject, but the present very conventional treatment of it would bore even a lumber-camp. On the whole, I am inclined to care most for the tale of the Idiot Boy, "Jonathan," who inadvertently slew his pet cricket. The tragedy was due to an indigestion brought on by eating dough. The end is charming: "Jonathan is 'a great hand,' his father tells...