Word: wood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Warren estate, State Forester R. M. Gibbs was in charge of the group, advising where the wood should be cut and conducting the work so as to preserve the young trees and eliminate those that were weak and old. Approximately 25 cords of wood were cut and piled each day by the men, each of whom received...
During the Christmas holidays two groups of University students aided the Massachusetts Forestry Association in relieving the fuel situation by cutting wood at Sandwich and at Waltham. On the day before Christmas 30 men started work on the 25-acre wood lot at Cedar Hill Farm, Waltham, owned by Miss Cornelia Warren. On the holiday 12 students worked, and on the following day 50 continued the wood-cutting. Throughout the remainder of the vacation large numbers worked daily, finally succeeding in clearing the plot of its fuel supply...
...Coolidge '20, H. F. Gibbs '20, G. W. Howe '21, D. B. Hull '19, R. McA. Lloyd '19, W. J. Louderback, Jr., '20, E. A. McCouch '20, W. W. McLeod '19, J. A. Sessions '21, J. Stubbs '20, M. A. Taylor '19, A. F. Tribble '19 and O. C. Wood...
...clock today Mr. Reynolds, secretary of the Massachusetts State Forestry Association, will speak in Sever 5 to the students who are planning to take up wood-cutting during the Christmas vacation. This work will not only be of great value to the men in that they receive a good salary in addition to board and lodging, and will learn some of the fundamentals of the lumbering business, but it will also help in a certain measure to reduce the fuel shortage in Massachusetts. The place where the students will work will be announced this afternoon...
...Reynolds, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Forestry Association, will be in Sever 5 at 5.30 o'clock on Monday afternoon to explain the conditions under which the wood-cutting will be done during the Christmas holidays. Board and lodging will be given the men during the time of their work in addition to a good salary. The students will learn some lumbering...