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...Haven, Conn., October 12.--Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale Forestry School has announced that the Yale Corporation, with the approval of the Athletic Association, has set aside 200 acres of the Ray Tompkins Memorial tract near the new Yale golf course as a preserve for the native plant and wild life of this region...
This vast memorial includes 700 acres. It was presented to Yale University as a memorial by Mrs. Ray Tompkins to her deceased husband, one of Yale's greatest-early athletes and captain of the 1884 football team. Formerly, the tract was the property of John Milton Greist, who devoted it for more than two decades as a preserve for deer, elk, and other big game...
Henceforth, 200 acres of the total estate will be used as a santuary, for animals and plants and will also be used for field studies and instruction by the departments of botany, zoology and forestry. For a long time this extensive tract of forest has been under excellent protection and care. Around a portion of it is still found the high woven wire fence which confined the deer and elk when its former owner, Mr. Griest of New Haven, used the land as a deer park...
...from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...goes the aftermath of the hysterical Scopes trial (TIME, May 18, 25, June 1 et seq) The sacred enterprise is to be situated on a 26-acre tract over the road from the house in which William Jennings Bryan breathed his last. . . Mrs. Bryan will be furnished an abode on the college grounds; will spend part of each year therein. . . . "A Prominent New Yorker" is sought for the chair of a national advisory committee...