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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first intimation that I had that there would be any change in the Garden," said Mr. Hamblin, "came with the instructions given me by Mr. Lowell on Wednesday, October 16, in relation to the closing of the gates. I find that the Visiting Committee, departmental heads, officers of the University, and also the Garden Clubs and other people interested in giving for the Garden, knew nothing of this decision...
...decided last spring to close the Garden, as President Lowell said Tuesday, it must have been known to only a few people at that time, for the director and people interested were not notified...
...members of the visiting committee, who is a member of the North Shore Garden Club, which is interested in the work of the Garden and has contributed to its work, said that "we have always had hard sledding to get funds. The University has always given us $3000 yearly to pay off the debt of the Garden, and we have raised $5000 to carry on the work. Last spring the University, after the debt had been paid, would not continue to contribute their $3000 to the Garden any more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members...
...statement of several members of the Department of Botany that "the closing of the gates was due to a misunderstanding," and one from the publicity department of the same field which appeared in the Cambridge Chronicle of October 25, that the building of the fence was a "mistake," he said...
...sure that there is not another man lecturing in the United States today who would be more welcome at Oxford," said Heathcote William Garrod, the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer from Oxford at Harvard this year, discussing the appointment of John, Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '06, professor of English, who will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford during...