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PROFESSOR SARGENT

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There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth.

Harvard can hardly add posthumous praise to that which Professor Sargent's unassuming services in the few hundred acres beyond Jamaica Pond have already won him, even from across the Atlantic. He lived to see his labours reap their reward. Harvard can but regret his death and be proud of his life.

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