Word: soils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the estate of Miss Rebecca W. Brown, to be added to the fund created by her brother, Dr. Buckminster Brown, for the foundation of a Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery. A gift of $2,200 was also reported by the Treasurer, given by the following graduates for improving the soil and for planting shrubs and vines in the Yard: F. L. Ames '54, O. Ames '86, W. C. Baylies '84, H. B. Cabot '83, W. Endicott '87, C. S. Fairchild '63, A. Hemenway '75, H. S. Hunnewell '75, W. Hunnewell '65, T. W. Lamont '92, G. von L. Meyer...
...suspicion that there were other causes responsible for the failing of the trees than beetles and bugs was recently substantiated. The net-work of the drain and hot-water pipes and other underground disturbances has greatly interfered with the action of the soil water and the behavior of the soil in general...
When the Freshman dormitories were built last year, thirteen small trees were planted in the plot of land between Smith and Standish Halls. Since the soil was not good, they did not grow very well, and therefore were taken out last fall...
...free and abundant farm land in the United States is past. All of the best land is occupied, and the farmer can no longer extract the largest crops, regardless of future fertility, and then move on to another tract of virgin soil. The land must be farmed carefully and scientifically; it must yield more per acre...
...politicians, while by his friends it was regarded as a downward step. The politicians laughed because they thought the university graduate too unsophisticated to succeed, while the friends, on the other hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist to act for them, and never feel a qualm as to any questionable methods that might be used. In England men of education and men representing property rights...