Word: directorship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...corner of Garden and Linnaean streets, Cambridge, should be combined with the Bussey Institution and moved to the latter's grounds at Jamaica Plain. Both of these places are connected with the University. The Botanic Garden, which was founded here in 1807, and became famous under the 30-year directorship of Dr. Asa Gray, contains at present more than 5000 species of flowering plants, cultivated for educational and scientific purposes. The Bussey Institution, with which the Visitation Committee wishes to combine the Garden, is the Graduate School of Applied Biology...
While in Rome he played an important part in uniting the separate institutions of the Academy of Art and the School of Classical Studies to form the American Academy. The Academy is now under the directorship of Professor J. B. Carter of Princeton, succeeding Mr. Frank Millet, the artist, who perished in the Titanic disaster...
Professor Rotch founded the Meteorological Observatory in 1885 and has since maintained it. Blue Hill, under his directorship, attained a very high place in the scientific world. The Kiel and Harvard Observatories have been selected as centres for the announcement of astronomical discoveries. Discoveries made in America are telegraphed to Blue Hill, from there to Kiel, and thence to all the principal observatories of Europe. As a result of Professor Rotch's investigations, many important discoveries of the phenomena of the air have been made at the Observatory...
...service of the Amerika-Institut, which was established under Professor Muensterberg's directorship, in awakening both countries to the advantages of mutual intercourse, is fully explained, in a way that presents the full significance of the phrase which describes its purpose--"to further and expand the cultural relations between the United States an Germany." Such an organized move has been necessary, because, in spite of the fact that thousands of Americans visit Germany every summer, most of them look upon the excursion as a "gaudy vacation" and do not work hard "as unofficial delegates of their country for the cultivation...
...room for the evening. The entertainment will be provided by members of the club including J. A. Blake '93, F. Blake '02, P. Jewell '09, H. L. Morris '02, C. L. Hay "08, and others. The alumni chorus is to be present, and also a large orchestra under the directorship of M. B. Lang '02. At one end of the ball-room, a theatre will be built...