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...Garden, which is situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets, Cambridge, was established in 1807 by a number of public-spirited gentlemen who endowed a professorship of Natural History. The seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income...
...Garden contains at present over 10,000 species of hardy herbs growing in the beds. In addition to these, the greenhouses contain many plants which require great heat, most of them tropical varieties...
...feasibility of such an organization is greatly to be doubted. Europe is too broken up, too much a conglomeration of conflicting and opposing races, for such a plan to be carried out, at least at the present time. Each state is a single unit, highly centralized, composite; and there must be a tremendous change before it is possible to imagine a political union of nations, beyond what has so far been done in the formation of the League of Nations. And the organization is little more than a group gathered together with the purpose of preventing war, and settling disputes...
...nothing further than a high conception, not to be carried out definitely until some period in the far distant future. It is only a beautiful ideal towards which the world can progress; for the tremendous difficulties, cultural, religious, and historical, seem too great to be overcome during the present...
...meeting was attended by the Junior eight of the Class of 1930 who are at present the only wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key in the College...