Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...decided last spring," he continued, "why wait until October 16 to make it public? More than $5000 has been spent since July; the giving public has thus been misled for several months, and gifts received since July can properly be asked to be returned...
...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 of the Botanic Garden Visiting Committee, received a statement of the members of the "Visiting Committee to the Department of Botany...
...will be greatly handicapped by the loss of David Cobb '31, who pulled a tendon in last Saturday's meet with Dartmouth, and will not be able to run again during the fall season. It is hoped that he will have recovered sufficiently to race during the winter and spring contests...
...number of people interested in gardening asked the Corporation to conduct the Garden for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, which the Corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific purposes. The direction of the Garden has, therefore, been transferred to a member of the Department of Botany...