Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Jacob Gould Schurman, philosopher, educator and colonial administrator; President of Cornell University, a pioneer among colleges, founded on new principles that have borne abundant fruit...
...treatment of the subject, simply for its own sake, such as an especially qualified person may some day undertake. It comes "as an homage of Germany to President Eliot . . . and at the same time to America in the person of her representative educator." It "should be regarded as a fruit of the intellectual exchange movement between Germany and America...
...England. He is generally regarded as the first authority on forestry in the United States. Professor John Craig, chief of the Department of Horticulture at Cornell, will read the second paper. His subject will be the opportunities in New England for the cultivation of orchards and the raising of fruit. The two papers will be followed by suggestions and discussion by the delegates. Tomorrow morning's session will be opened with a prayer by Most Reverend W. H. O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. The first paper will be read by F. H. Herrick, special investigator on the lobster...
...undergraduate petition to the Faculty has already borne fruit in one way at least. This manifestation has come in the form of a public letter to the 1500 odd signers of the petition from a committee of the Faculty, asking some extremely pertinent questions as to the general feeling towards scholarship work. It is the endeavor of the committee to get the student's view-point on the question of rank, degrees with distinction, and the relative worth of scholarship as compared with other pursuits; and the information will be of great value...
...what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel that his splendid work has borne fruit and that he has done a great service not only to his own country, but to Harvard University as well. KUNO FRANCKE...