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Courses in the Forestry School which have hitherto been given in Cambridge, will be removed to the Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plain, this spring, according to recent plans by the Department of Forestry. At present, that spring, summer, and early fall are spent at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass., and the winter months at Cambridge where lectures have been given in Lawrence and Robinson Halls...
...give such courses where the facilities are best. The University has really remarkable facilities for studies in the practical side of forestry management, logging and the like, at Petersham; while the facilities for studying entomology, pathology, and biology at the Bussey Institution and the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain are practically in unlimited. Next to the Kew Gardens in England the Arnold Arboretum, is the best equipped of its kind in the world, and the Bussey Institution is the best of its kind in this country...
...year on specialization in some definite direction. There will be four specializing fields in the second year and men will study in the place best fitted for their courses, at Petersham or at the Bussey Institution. All the equipment now in Cambridge will be moved to Jamaica Plain in time to begin work there next fall...
...with easy-going youths chiefly troubled about turns of phrase. Indeed, in what these men exhibit of their own quickened imaginations and strengthened capacity to handle ideas, lies perhaps the most striking witness they offer to Mr. Santayana's power. That he has never desired obsequious allegiance is plain from the independence of his pupils' views. Regret grows that Harvard could not keep a professor so peculiarly fitted to inspire a select body of students to superior intellectual life...
...King '16, of Boston, has been appointed manager of the combined Freshman Mandolin and Glee Clubs, and has arranged the following concerts: Saturday, April 26, in the Milton Town Hall; Friday, May 2, in Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain; Saturday, May 10, in Brattle Hall, Cambridge; Friday, May 16, in the Chestnut Hill Club...