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...commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing to do with--and the trees which park commissioners and landscape gardeners look upon with the greatest pleasure are considered by the forester as timber that is over-ripe or "forest weeds." To give proper training in this profession Harvard would have to secure no small equipment, and to set out to do this at present would seem to me to be following our pride rather than our good sense. There are still comparatively...
Shortly before that time a fire broke out in a pile of timber in front of the new Architectural Building and four engines responded to an alarm that was rung in. The fire was extinguished very quickly, but a large crowd of students collected at once and surrounded the engines. The horses drawing the chemical engine started forward suddenly and dashed through the crowd. Bigelow, who was directly in front of the engine, was knocked down by the horses and was crushed by one of the wheels...
Geological Conference. Paper: The New Timber Reserve of the Yellowstone National Park (illustrated with the stereopticon). Mr. T. A. Jaggar. Geological Lecture-room...
Geological Conference. Paper: The New Timber Reserve of the Yellowstone National Park (illustrated with the stereopticon). Mr. T. A. Jaggar. Geological Lecture-room...
...enough money was raised among members of the association to support a general secretary, who could give more time to the work than a regular student. Possibly the newest feature is the work among the sailors in Boston and Charlestown. On Sunday several men go aboard the coal and timber vessels lying near by and talk plainly and frankly with the sailors who are, as a rule, unprejudiced and willing listeners and talkers. The effect of this work is twofold. Besides its effect on the sailors, there is a reflex influence on the men themselves. They find it excellent training...