Records of the Association for the Arnold Arboretum, 1953-1958.
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Arnold Arboretum
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The planning for the Arnold Arboretum Centennial celebration began in 1967 when Dr. Richard A. Howard, Arboretum Director from 1954-1978, appointed committees of supporters and visiting-committee members to raise funds for the upcoming event. The week-long celebration (May 21-28, 1972) opened with a banquet in a downtown Boston hotel that featured an address by William T. Stearn, famous taxonomist and botanist from the British Museum of Natural History. Events included a daylong symposium on "Po...
Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Association for the Arnold Arboretum.
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The Association for the Arnold Arboretum, Inc., an independent group of 600 members, was organized in July 1953 as a nonprofit Massachusetts corporation to aid in the protection, preservation, support, and advancement of the Arnold Arboretum. Its creation was prompted by the Harvard Corporation's decision of January 1953 to remove most of the Arboretum's herbarium and library from Jamaica Plain to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in accordance with the previously approved Bailey Plan. The Association a...
