Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 23 Harvard's Costa Rica Expedition for plant collections, under the leadership of Dr. C. W. Dodge, Director of the Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics...
...group of 12 educators from Brazil will come to Harvard as a part of a brief survey of American educational systems which they are undertaking under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, of New York. They will stay in Boston until Saturday noon and during their sojourn will make a study of educational methods in force in the metropolitan district. The plan of their work here has been organized by G. K. Martin '32 in cooperation with H. E. Wilson, secretary to the Graduate School of Education, and the Phillips Brooks House Associates...
...feet above sea level in a region of oak forests, open pastures, and deep gorges, the rainy season offered unusual collecting. Among many other things, the return represented 200 species of fleshy fungi, popularly speaking, mushrooms and toadstools, which are totally new to science. During early December a profitable sojourn was made at the Research Station of the United Fruit Co. at Siquirres in the hot lowlands. Daily trips into the jungle yielded many species of varying plant types, and presented conditions strikingly at variance to those of the highlands. Recently, a three hour horse-back ride from a point...