Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatest needs of society. The old saying that the child is father of the man was never felt to be so true as by those engaged in work among society today. To take a child when young from the midst of a life of vice and degredation, and transplant him to some purer atmosphere where he will grow up under a moral influence is one of the greatest benefits that one can bestow upon society. It may be expensive, but in the end it is economical, for these very children if not turned in the right direction will grow...
...wish you would suggest to our landscape gardener that while there is yet time he should transplant the young creepers he has set out so profusely against the Law School to the gaunt and bare rear walls of Hastings, which have not been given any, the Physical Laboratory and Thayer Hall, which would look handsomer, the deeper its natural hideousness were hidden from sight. The Law School is one of the few Harvard buildings that can stand scrutiny; and to cover up its walls with vines, especially the fine carved shield on its eastern wing, while the ugly architecture...