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After being graduated from Yale in 1889, Mr. Pinchot studied forestry in France, Germany and Switzerland. Later he organized forestry work in Baltimore, and opened an office as a consulting forester. In 1896 he became secretary of the Forestry Commission of the National Academy of Science, and had great influence with President Cleveland in setting aside the 21,000,000 acres of forest reservations...
...became chief of the Division of Forestry in the agricultural department at Washington, and has held that position ever since. In 1901 the division became the Bureau of Forestry, and finally in 1907 it was made the "Forest Service" and given the care of the national forests...
...department of the government service in which Harvard has recently shown great interest. As the attractions of the out-of-door life have induced many college graduates to enter the profession, advanced work has been made possible for members of the University by the gift of the Petersham forest. Under Mr. Pinchot's administration the public has been made to realize the necessity of preserving the national forests, and much has already been accomplished in this important work. His address in the Union tonight on "The Government Service as a Career" should be exceptionally interesting...
...FORESTRY CLUB. "The Harvard Forest." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor Fisher. Lecture Room, Robinson Hall...
...Harvard Engineers have been elected for the coming year: president, George Staples Rice '70; vice-presidents, Bernard Richardson Green '64, James Hennen Jennings '77, Edmund Stanley Clarke '84; secretary and treasurer, Professor Frank Lowell Kennedy '92; members of the council for three years, Philip Whitney Davis '93 and James Forest Sanborn...