Word: soils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supplement to the recent faculty resolutions passed at Brown, which give credit to students who leave college to go into farming, and in order to emphasize the need of agriculture and intensive cultivation of the soil in the present crisis, President Faunce, of that university, has come out personally in favor of it. He has stated that "65 acres of land in Scituate have been secured on which a picked group of Brown students will be able to camp and devote the summer to cultivation...
...Seminary of Economics. "Climate and Soil Exhaustion as Factors in Economics History." Dr. Ellsworth Huntington '02. Widener...
...part which this Commonwealth has played and still ought to play in the affairs of the country. And we are self-supporting. We are not paupers; we do not call on state or city for our support or education. In fact we do not call on the hard-worked soil of Massachusetts for our subsistence; we bring into the state money which enables many voters of Cambridge to be technically "self-supporting." Why inquire the source of our income any more than that of the politicians who are maintained out of the public treasury, or those whose ancestors amassed...
Paris is said to have been startled by the audacity; but why, if Parisians have faith in the star of Joffre? This select lot of land, scarred by trenches and craters, but still prolific in the hands of the intensive farmer, is French soil again. The buildings, it is true, have been shot to pieces and the trees, if there be any left, are blasted by shell and gas and may never leaf again, but one may till and sleep there in security unless the Germans "come back...
...owner could have the option of cultivating the ground and finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time. --New York...