Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pride rather than our good sense. There are still comparatively few men who are going in for forestry. These are more than provided for by the schools at Biltmore, Cornell and New Haven, and for various reasons we should find it hard to rival what Yale, helped by the Pinchot family, is doing already. I cannot see, therefore, how Harvard can profitably pretend to do more than she is really doing now--let anyone study anything which he thinks will help him when he gets to a professional school. HENRY JAMES...
...School of Forestry opened Thursday, September 27, at the residence of the late Professor O C. Marshall. Addresses were made by Gifford Pinchot, Yale '89, head of the U. S. Division of Forestry; Professor W. H. Brewer and Professor J. W. Tourney. Six students regularly enrolled in the school and thirteen students from other departments have elected the one course open to undergraduates. The director of the school is Professor W. H. Graves...
...Yale Forest School, containing the courses of study in this department, has just appeared. The school will be opened next September with a governing board consisting of President Hadley; H. S. Graves, B.A., Pinchal Professor of Forestry; W. H. Brewer, Ph.D., Professor of Agriculture, and Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Special Lecturer on Forest Policy. The regular course covers a period of two years, and the subjects are so arranged that nearly all the preliminary and technical work will be completed in the first year. The second year will be devoted to advanced work in the class-room and in the field...
...recent meeting of the corporation a gift of $150,000 for the establishment of a school of forestry was accepted from Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot and their sons Gifford Pinchot '89 and Amos Pinchot '97. To provide for a practical summer school the Pinchot family has given to the university the use of a large tract of forest land near Milford, Pike County, Pa., where a library will be established for the use of the school. Instruction will probably begin at Milford by August 1 and at New Haven with the opening of the academic year next fall...
...think seriously of working in forestry this summer are asked to communicate with Mr. Pinchot in Washington...