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Besides uncounted numbers of deer, bear, foxes, rabbits, squirrels and birds of the forest, there are abroad in the woods this hunting season some 300,000 CCC workers. Following a custom he believes prudent, Director Robert Fechner of CCC last week addressed a letter to State game wardens thanking them for their help in the past and asking them again this year to keep his boys from being shot...
Except for this last-minute affirmation, it might seem as though it was Danton's Death that Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." For the play is a dark forest of conflicting themes, can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged...
...Harvard Forest has an indispensable educational and scientific task in helping to rehabilitate the hurricane-destroyed forests of central New England, to say nothing of continuing its long and distinguished contribution to American silviculture...
...continuance of the forest, however, was contingent on the University being able to finance the considerable operating cost of salvaging the down timber and on determining whether there was enough of the Forest left to furnish the basis for a long range experimental program. Neither of these essential facts was or could be known to me at the time of the interview; but since then, I am glad to say, both questions have been answered in the affirmative...
...further question remains whether the University can raise the additional endowment required to carry on and enlarge the program of my distinguished predecessor, Richard Thornton Fisher. Plans for the program of the Forest and for the raising of endowment will be shortly presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard University...