Word: planting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great English universities a place in the popular affection and esteem such as they have perhaps never occupied before. In France there is precisely the same tale to tell. The tragedy of the situation there is perhaps not as evident at first sight as in England; for the "plant" of the continental university is so much smaller than that of a residential institution like Oxford or Cambridge that the outward effects of its desertion are less immediately obvious. But a look beneath the surface or a talk with any of the academic people who remain will quickly reveal the true...
...rebuilt, the Herbarium consists of the Kidder wing, at the rear, built in 1910 through the liberality of N. T. Kedder of Milton, and containing a considerable part of the plant collection; the Library wing, the gift of Dr. G. G. Kennedy of Milton, built in 1911 and including the library and administrative offices; the G. R. White laboratories of systematic botany, forming a wing extending toward the conservatories and containing the Harvard and Radcliffe laboratories; and the central section described above...
...awarded to Gerald Louis Wendt 3G., of Boston, for an essay entitled "The Nature of the Atom"; in graduate group II, biology, geology, anthropology, and forestry, the prize of $200 was awarded to Guilford Bevil Reed 3G., of Berwick, N. S., for an essay entitled "Studies in Plant Diseases"; in graduate group III, foreign languages literatures, ancient and modern, the prize of $200 was awarded to William Odell Shepard 1G., of Los Angeles, Cal., for an essay entitled "The Cult of Solitude in French Romantic Literature...
Laboratories amounting to about $1,000,000 in value are to be erected on a 480-acre plant. Dr. Smith will use these for studying the nature, causes and cures of cognate diseases. Results equalling in importance those of the Institute in New York are expected...
Professor Bose illustrated the inhibitory effect of alcohol, chloroform, either, and potassium cyanide on various plants and finally demonstrated that the nervous system of a plant, ten times more sensitive than that of an animal, may be controlled...