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Frank Waugh

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Frank Waugh
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“I have always conducted my
classes on the assumption that,
while no student is likely to
become a landscape gardener,
all are bound to see many of
the beautiful pictures in Nature’s
gallery, and these they ought to
understand and enjoy.”

A native of the Midwest, Frank Waugh
moved to New England in 1895 and “with
his family to Amherst in 1902, where he
immediately established and became head
of the Department of Landscape Gardening
at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now
University of Massachusetts Amherst). The first
such program in the United States had started
at Harvard just two years before, and Waugh’s,
designed as a four-year curriculum, began
admitting students in 1903.
“At the end of the decade Waugh wrote a piece
called Ten of My Boys, about graduates of the
program and their thriving careers in the new
profession of landscape architecture. He was very
attentive to his students’ employment prospects,
and he helped place them in good situations,
including the offices of the Olmsted Brothers,
Jens Jensen, Warren Manning, and John Nolen.

“In Waugh’s view, the landscape architect

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was first and foremost an artist ‘capable of
seeing, feeling, and understanding . . . the
beauties of the landscape, and capable, too, of
interpreting these beauties to others.’

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