Word: properly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...training of the forester, just as in the case of the doctor, are quite distinct and peculiar. I do not believe that we have anybody here who could pretend to give this training, and even if we should secure some one to do the teaching, we should still lack proper equipment. It is misleading to speak as if the College, apart from the professional schools, could give the would-be forester more than it gives anyone else, a good foundation for his special knowledge...
...feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing to do with--and the trees which park commissioners and landscape gardeners look upon with the greatest pleasure are considered by the forester as timber that is over-ripe or "forest weeds." To give proper training in this profession Harvard would have to secure no small equipment, and to set out to do this at present would seem to me to be following our pride rather than our good sense. There are still comparatively few men who are going in for forestry. These are more...
...been in danger of collapse, both times because of lack of good business management by the Superintendent. The first time, the Society was carried through by the personal credit of the then president; in the second case, the directors practically refused to take the business-like precaution of a proper audit of the books, until they were compelled to do so by the insistence of a student director, backed up by members of the Society, who absolutely insisted that an investigation be made. The audit showed such loose methods of business that a change of management immediately followed. Here...
...Legislature providing for the election of Fellows directs that the votes shall be cast under such regulations as the President and Fellows may prescribe, and the existing rules allow the voters to send their ballots by mail to the Secretary, or otherwise to provide for depositing them at the proper place on the day of election. The election is by plurality of votes. It is conducted in the following manner...
...annual Dudleian lecture was delivered by Professor Josiah Royce last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room. The prescribed subject was "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned...