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... language , which I have freely modified and abridged . In addition to the professors of the forest schools visited , and to many diplomatic agents , I * EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT , HARTFORD , CONN . , June 12 , 1877 . I have signed these ...
... language , which I have freely modified and abridged . In addition to the professors of the forest schools visited , and to many diplomatic agents , I * EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT , HARTFORD , CONN . , June 12 , 1877 . I have signed these ...
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... language . One of the Spanish Commissioners to the Centennial Exposition , Señor Morera , published a list of 1,126 volumes on forestry in the Spanish language alone . Little attention has been given in this country to sylvicul- ture ...
... language . One of the Spanish Commissioners to the Centennial Exposition , Señor Morera , published a list of 1,126 volumes on forestry in the Spanish language alone . Little attention has been given in this country to sylvicul- ture ...
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... numerous smaller dependencies of the British Empire , * This language is equally applicable to the Sheffield Scientific School and to several scientific schools in other States , crying out to us to furnish them with thoroughly educated 35.
... numerous smaller dependencies of the British Empire , * This language is equally applicable to the Sheffield Scientific School and to several scientific schools in other States , crying out to us to furnish them with thoroughly educated 35.
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... language , together with some military instruction and drill , and practice in horsemanship . In the Summer Session , from May to September , thirty - one days are spent in botanical and professional excursions in the Vosges , the Jura ...
... language , together with some military instruction and drill , and practice in horsemanship . In the Summer Session , from May to September , thirty - one days are spent in botanical and professional excursions in the Vosges , the Jura ...
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... Languages - Exercises in Italian , German and French . THIRD YEAR . Mathematics applied - Rates of Growth of Trees . Mensuration , Preparing Charts and Levels , Estimating Condition and Value of Forests , Forest Administration - Statis ...
... Languages - Exercises in Italian , German and French . THIRD YEAR . Mathematics applied - Rates of Growth of Trees . Mensuration , Preparing Charts and Levels , Estimating Condition and Value of Forests , Forest Administration - Statis ...
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Page 35 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 79 - ... understand their rights, to maintain them, and to exercise with intelligence their parts in self-government; and all this would be effected, without the violation of a single natural right of any one individual citizen.
Page 80 - To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor, and judgment; And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.
Page 15 - And surely while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the " Sylva" of Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was a retired philosopher who aroused the genius of...
Page 24 - There is a grandeur of thought connected with this heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of liberal and freeborn and aspiring men. He who plants an oak, looks forward to future ages and plants for posterity. He cannot expect to enjoy its shelter, but he exults in the idea that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing and benefiting mankind long after he has ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Page 24 - I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry.
Page 52 - Pavilion property, with the buildings standing thereon, and by me estimated to be worth the sum of $40,000 and in addition to said lot the sum of $20,000, said lot to be conveyed in fee simple, and said money to be paid over to Henry Barnard 2d, Edmond G. Howe, William L. Collins, William N. Matson, Henry Clay Trumbull, Daniel C. Gilman, Eoland Mather, Newton Case, Alfred Watkinson, John S.
Page 108 - ... all accounts and reports of receivers made to the proper court and referred to the commissioners by the court, and, for the purposes of this section, shall have free access to the books and papers relating...
Page 35 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Page 26 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before...