Word: pinchot
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...Those who actually do the work of conservation have, therefore, a peculiar claim upon us. While I was President, there were no two men to whom I felt I owed more, from the standpoint of the public service, than Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot, for the work they did in connection with conservation...
...write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness, but with the utmost efficiency. They actually put into practice as working principles the theories which a great many men, including I myself, for instance, thoroughly approve, but which were reduced to action in satisfactory shape for the first time...
...brief glance at the names of the speakers cannot fail to reveal the significance of these lectures. Mr. Hill, Senator LaFollette, and Mr. Pinchot will be looked back upon as among the most prominent makers of history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
Among the other lecturers will be Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsay, the originator of the Juvenile court system, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot '89, counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Louis Brandeis L.'77, counsel in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, John Graham Brooks t.'75, lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist, and former president of the Great Northern Railroad system, Senator R. M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, prominent in encouraging the election of United States senators...
...McClure's Magazine, and associate editor of the American Magazine, Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsay, the originator of the juvenile court system, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot '89, counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Louis Brandeis L.'77, counsel in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, John Graham Brooks t.'75, lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist, and former president of the Great Northern Railroad system, Senator R. M. LaFoliette of Wisconsin, prominent in encouraging the election...