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makers, a thousand gallons of facts to a half-pint of principles; or, to change the figure, bringing order into a few of life's storage closets, discovering there some garments which still have good wear in them, and persuading my students to wrap this rainment about their intellectual nakedness.
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space for dead storage, I enter (facts and ideas) methodically on 3 x 5 slips of paper. When enough of a kind are amassed, they are outspread, classified, digested, written down, dehydrated, and lo! and article, or more rarely a book, to be pursued by some lone watcher in
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Although a classicist by training, Pease was also "an outstanding amateur field botanist" and "it is Professor Pease's work in New England botany for which he will be especially remembered.
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Much of his personal papers, including correspondence with figures of historical interest and various manuscripts, are now kept by Harvard's Houghton Library in
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led him to say that it "has probably changed more materially during the last hundred years than at any period of the same length since the last
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upon his retirement in 1950. During his lengthy academic career, Pease articulated the following philosophy of education:
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again as a Latin professor. At Harvard, he was appointed Pope Professor of Latin in 1942 and was made became Professor
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in 1939. They had two children — Sherwood ("Tuck") and Stan — and at least six grandchildren.
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After earning his terminal degree, Pease travelled to Europe and spent most of his time there in
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Besides his many botanical articles, Pease published a considerable amount of material on
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and the New England Botanic Club eventually leading to the posthumous 1964 publication of
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Five years later, Pease resigned from the presidency of Amherst College to return to his
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is beyond the comprehension of a mere botanist of more limited horizon." In naming the
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before his sudden death, and his wife Abby Frances Cutter Pease. Pease was educated at
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and while living there he acquainted himself with the plants growing in the
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Pease further expounded on his personal views and habits when he said:
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Harvard University: Exploring The Gaspé Peninsula, Summer 1923
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as well as an avid botanist, Pease collected and studied
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Harvard College: Arthur Stanley Pease (1881–1964)
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Index

professor
Classics
amateur
botanist
president
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
faculty members
indefatigable
pedestrian
New Englander
Somers, Connecticut
parsonage
Andover Theological Seminary
Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
towns
Essex County
collector
marbles
horse chestnuts
postage stamps
books
Italy
Greece
Cohasset, Massachusetts
anthropologist
primatologist
Sherwood "Sherry" Washburn
Harvard College

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