Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Applied Plant Anatomy is dealing with the structure and anatomy of plant tissues, as a knowledge of such matters is essential to the utilization for forest products and other plant materials...
...Department of Economic Botany is systematizing the knowledge pertaining to useful plants of all kinds and is thus directly contributing to agriculture and the arts dependent upon plant materials...
...Department of Plant Breeding is similarly engaged in a study of the principles of inheritance that may be applied to the successful improvement of plants, particularly those of agricultural value...
...present activities of the Institution are in the fields of economic entomology, the laws of hereditary and their application to animal and plant breeding, applied plant anatomy, economic botany, dendrology and silviculture, and during the course of twelve years it has published about five hundred contributions to knowledge in these subjects. While much of this work has dealt with matters of direct political concern like agriculture and medical entomology, animal and plant breeding, forestry, etc., a very considerable number of the contributions have dealt with underlying principles and matters of fundamental importance which must be extensively investigated before their satisfactory...
...question of the "H" on the power plant next to Standish Hall is certainly worthy of more notice than it has so far received. The power house is today the outstanding ugly feature of the Charles River front. The three handsome Freshman Dormitories would make the tract very pretty were it not for this ugly structure. The construction of the "H" would make the plant an addition to the appearance of the waterfront instead of a blot. The giant "H" would catch the eye of every passer-by, consequently causing the plant itself to be unnoticed. Thus, the entire appearance...