Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many specimens as possible of the rare and valuable tree snail was the purpose of our trip," declared W. J. Clench, Curator of Mollusks at the Peabody Museum, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, on his return from an expedition of over a month into the Everglade region of Florida...
...cutting our way with machete hatchets through dense underbrush, now wading through water up to our knees, with the ever-present fear of the moccasin snake, whose bite is more deadly than that of the rattler, we made our way into the heart of a comparatively unknown region...
...most important tasks is to seek to improve the plants we find growing naturally in this region. There are thousands of varieties of sugar cane, for example: we see what conditions of soil and culture are most favorable to each. One which we have been developing, "Harvard 12029," is so successful that it is being planted in wide areas and bids fair to supplant the present species...
These buildings, with others abutting on Plympton Street below Mt. Auburn Street, have been owned by the University for a number of years. Before Soldier's Field was used to such an extent as today and before the Freshman dormitories were built, this region was one of the most unattractive in Cambridge. The destruction of these houses, both of cheap construction, marks one more step in the University's attempt in recent years to clean up the district, since the expansion of the College in that direction...
...some future date, it is the intention of the University to clean out the Plympton Street region altogether and to erect college buildings there, but this involves taking the land out of reach of the city tax assessors, and other problems that will make such a project impractical for many years...