The
very considerable amount of discussion which is now being carried on regarding forestry and the necessity of national or state regulation of our remaining important forest areas, makes timely a note of the movement which began twenty-one years ago at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Mass.
While
a water famine scare is being raised in various quarters, and while public attention is being directed in this city, Albany, and elsewhere, to schemes to secure to private parties the right to supply the metropolis with more water, the fact has escaped notice that the finishing touches are now being put on immense public works, planned a decade ago, which will more than double the city's supply at single stroke.
There
are many millions of postal cards used in the United States every year, and it will surprise the majority of people to learn that the centre of the postal cards industry—the only place, in fact, where they are made—is a little village in the mountains of West Virginia.
True success, the success at which we aim who are banding ourselves together for the world's practical betterment, is not the satisfying of any one passion, such as the exaltation of the saint or the avarice of the miser, but the complete life, joyous and useful, equipped with the wealth and power to spread our joy and usefulness over as wide an area as possible.
Beloved Students:—One and all from North to South, from East to West, please receive through our columns Mother's best thanks for your varied, multiform, beautiful, useful Easter gifts—all unexpected and lovingly appreciated.
with contributions from Dean Crane, William I. Lawrance, Richard E. Breed
At
the invitation of President Schurman, of Cornell University, and under the auspices of the university, presided over by Dean Crane, who represented the president in his absence, Carol Norton, C.
In
many localities there may be seen now and then towering upward in majestic grandeur, lofty mountains, whose summits seem to be lost in the azure robe about them, or, perchance, obscured in a veil of mist.
There
are some students of the weekly lessons who seek, and so find for themselves, the teaching of each section; and others again would like to be told what it is without having to search for it.
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