Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent no unanimity of attitude on religious questions. A contribution to the Fund from Harvard University might presuppose something very much akin to such unanimity. Especially unwarrantable would the contribution appear since the Fund is designed to support a Committee Meeting to plant "the religion of Jesus" in India, a meeting "which makes demands upon the intelligence and the abilities of Federation members in excess of any other meeting so far held-so very beautiful, so very potent is the idea of an international student gathering in the land of the Brahmins...
...Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor of St. Thomas looks like a baby Golden Gate. In this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing, because of Negro migrations to Haiti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and New York City...
...tutorial system is a hardy plant, it blossoms even in those occasional weeks of the college year when the pressure of examinations drives tutors into academic retreats as secluded if not as hectic as those into which their tutees retire. One of them has sallied forth to express himself in the current Alumni Bulletin, reviewing the situation as it applies to the English Department...
...were divided and separated from the parent, in all cases becoming eventually greater departments, through the energy of one or more devoted workers who gained their first inspiration at the Garden. Thus there grew from the seed at the Garden the Summer School, Gray Herbarium, Arnold Aboretum, Botanical Museum, Plant Physiology, and the teaching of botany, all long planted in more favorable locations and now well developed. The purposes now served by these departments were once centered at the Garden, and probably no other department of the University has been so prolific a source of offspring...
...program of development of the hardy plants outdoors is not so nearly realized. It will take much further labor and effort to prepare the hard clay soil for the separate plant groups. A few beds are in fairly presentable shape, as samples of what should be done, but for the most part the soil is yet hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over...