Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boggs received a standing ovation Tuesday in Fenway Park. Opening Day does things like that to fans...
...funding has not been the arboretum's only problem in recent years. About 10 years ago, a woman was attacked while jogging through the arboretum in the early morning. Security at the arboretum was subsequently increased. Today park rangers from the Boston Park District patrol the grounds on horseback and in jeep vans. Boston Police also drive through the grounds many times daily, says Jo Procter, the arboretum's public affairs oficer...
Another recurring problem has been the occasional dumping of waste on the arboretum's fields. The latest instance was in February. The arboretum's gate was broken open and trash was found dumped near the road in a remote section of the park...
...history is much richer than the past, somewhat troubled decade might indicate. The conservatory draws some of its reputation from being the only arboretum of its kind designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of America's first and greatest landscape architects. He also planned New York's Central Park and Boston's "Emerald Necklace"--the series of parkways lining Brookline Avenue and Route One--as well as the Charles River Basin. Because of Olmsted's reputation as a landscape architect, architecture schools from around the world send students and faculty to view the grounds and examine plants they have been...
...displaying the latest in Harvard hockey championship t-shirts. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) honored the team on the floor of the Senate. The Undergraduate Council last Wednesday held a rally for the team on the steps of Widener. And yesterday on Opening Day at Fenway Park, in probably the most memorable of honors, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary '56 threw out the first pitch while the team crowded behind him on the pitching mound...