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Hitherto, its purpose, like the purpose of many of the more recently founded American schools, has been to furnish a broad general knowledge of silviculture and the management of forests. Since the need for intensive operation of forests is less pressing in America than in England, the demands have been more and more for specialists in either the business or the technical, scientific aspects of lumbering. By the present plans, joining one division of the School with the Business School and the other with the Bussey Institute and Arnold Arboretum, these demands are recognized, and the interests of forest conservation...
...Gries who will supervise the whole course is probably one of the best equipped men in the country to deal with this subject. The whole work under him will not only deal with the methods of turning forest trees into lumber profitably but will also take up the necessary details of finance and manufacturing. The lack of efficiency and economy in the lumber industry of today is lamentably noticeable. Much timber is made into lumber at a distinct loss. The whole manufacturing and marketing end of the lumber industry is in need of just such scientific study as this...
...served continually since that time. He proposes the adoption of a system of taxation on personal property, whereby the tax could be levied uniformly and equally and the collection could be made more thorough and systematic. Professor Bullock was also a member of the Committee on the Taxation of Forest Lands which recently proposed a bill for state ownership of forests...
...attention to a few casual examples of labor in outside fields by members of the Faculty-to the work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work of The of Professor Holcombe as a member of the first Minimum Wage Board in the country; to the work of Professor Taussig, for years the recognized leader of Free Trade in the United States. These men are not the only examples of the live wires that...
...Cambridge; W. B. D. Dana '14, of New York, N. Y.; V. Freedley '14, of Philadelphia, Pa.; J. A. Gilman '16, of Honolulu, Hawaii; M. J. Logan '15, of Boston; E. W. Mahan '16, of Natick; L. H. Mills '14; of Portland, Ore.; E. W. Soucy '16, of Forest Hills; W. A. Willetts '14, of Skaneateles, N. Y.; G. F. Plimpton '14, of-Buffalo, N. Y. (manager...