Word: conservationism
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"There will be no leases or disposal of government oil lands . . . except those which may be made mandatory by Congress.* In other words there will be a complete conservation of government oil for this administration."
Theodore Roosevelt began Conservation in 1907 by withdrawing 16,000,000 acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary...
The fate of the skunk is a problem worthy of our legislators, of the Debating Union, and the CRIMSON. A skunk is no laughing matter. The fate of the owl, the hawk, the snake, the fox and the skunk are chapters in the conservation of wild life from rugged individualism...
"It will be seen that in the matter of exercise my efforts have been toward a conservation of time.-. . .
Among the more interesting review listed for the December number of the Crimson Bookshelf is a review of Dr. Harvey Cushing's "Conservation Medici," by Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene in the University Lucius Beebe '27 will review Edward Arlington Robinson's recently published "Sonnets...