Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering their facilities to students from every part of the country." Beyond this, however, I believe that there is an advantage to the respective institutions which adopt this policy and carry it to fulfillment. Some one of the English writers has said that, granting the great desirability of tradition, plant, and distinction in processes of instruction, nevertheless the most vital phase of education is the impact of youthful mind on youthful mind. This is fundamental in my philosophy of higher education, and I believe that sectionalism and provincialism both are as undesirable as they are impossible in the modern world...
...This plant is one of the most up-to-date and effective. It is the first successful fumigater to be used by the museum...
What is most important, however, is that they all come back from their Goettingen discipline, and their visits to Goethe (Cogswell persuaded Goethe to give a set of his works to the Harvard Library) to plant the seeds of German academic culture in this country. Ticknor and Longfellow were the first and second incumbents of the chair later distinguished by James Russell Lowell and Bliss Perry. Mr. Long treats the academic influence of the pioneers fully. These are, it is worth repeating, significant chapters in the history of education in the United States...
...Wanda Kirkbridge Farr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Miss Sophia H. Eckerson of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, N. Y. launched an intensive chemical drive on cotton fibres, which are almost pure cellulose. When they soaked the fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...