Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, delivered an interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last night on "Government Service as a Career." He emphasized the imperative need of university men in the service of the government for the work of conserving our natural resources...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, will lecture on "Government Service as a Career" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
After being graduated from Yale in 1889, Mr. Pinchot studied forestry in France, Germany and Switzerland. Later he organized forestry work in Baltimore, and opened an office as a consulting forester. In 1896 he became secretary of the Forestry Commission of the National Academy of Science, and had great influence with President Cleveland in setting aside the 21,000,000 acres of forest reservations...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry, represents a department of the government service in which Harvard has recently shown great interest. As the attractions of the out-of-door life have induced many college graduates to enter the profession, advanced work has been made possible for members of the University by the gift of the Petersham forest. Under Mr. Pinchot's administration the public has been made to realize the necessity of preserving the national forests, and much has already been accomplished in this important work. His address in the Union tonight on "The Government Service...
...Pinchot was graduated from Yale in 1889, and afterwards studied forestry in Europe for a number of years. He was one of the first to do any systematic forestry work in the United States, and has done more than any one else for the conservation of the country's forests...