Word: westons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weston Studies Fungi...
...Within the next year or so," Professor W. H. Weston, Assistant Professor of Botany, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "I hope that I shall have been able to put into a systematic form the large amount of material which I have collected during the past eight years, and thus make possible a clear and inclusive study of the various fungi which have proved so destructive to crops, particularly in Oriental countries, and whose precise nature and habits have until very recently been but little known. By comparing the material gained from all over the world we hope to gain...
...Philippines, I could set my alarm clock for 12.30 at night and get out into the fields just as spore production was starting. Then I could study the mildews all night until the sun began to rise when spores would gradually cease to be produced." Professor Weston said that perhaps the most extraordinary thing of all was that when he had left the Philippines he found that the same thing took place at practically the same hours in similar fungi which were attacking crops in Minnesota and Florida...
...Wright '26, number one on the Crimson squad was forced to five games in winning his first match from H. C. Grafton of the Union Boat Club last Thursday and will meet Arthur Cross of the Weston Club next Monday. The first member of the University quintet to take part in the competition for the state title was H. N. Rawlins '27, number three on the Crimson squad, who advanced the first two rounds of the tournament with easy wins. He will clash with G. N. Hued of the Milton Club in his next match...
...Second University team which is now leading the clubs in the class B title race by one game will rest today after having triumphed over the Newton Club earlier in the week. With the third place Harvard Club five almost certain of taking five matches from the Weston court men today the Crimson seconds may find themselves trailing the University graduates by one game after this match. Next Saturday the deciding matches of the season will be played when the University second squad meets the Union Boat Club racquet team and the Harvard Club clashes with the Newton five...