. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. Prudence Island Light, Narragansett -SUc/C Hc^^^ CHAPTER III PROFESSIONAL TRAINING — APPRENTICESHIP Whatever contributes to better determine or to emphasize naturalcharacter is a resource of the art of landscape ; whatever destroys,enfeebles, or confuses that character the art forbids. — Hikschfeld. Charless choice of profession was practically made dur-ing the summer of 1882, which he spent at Mt. Desert,partly on shor
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. Prudence Island Light, Narragansett -SUc/C Hc^^^ CHAPTER III PROFESSIONAL TRAINING — APPRENTICESHIP Whatever contributes to better determine or to emphasize naturalcharacter is a resource of the art of landscape ; whatever destroys,enfeebles, or confuses that character the art forbids. — Hikschfeld. Charless choice of profession was practically made dur-ing the summer of 1882, which he spent at Mt. Desert,partly on shore and partly on the Sunshine. The Cham-plain Society conducted its summer campaign in a somewhatdifferent manner from that of 1880 and 1881. In those twoyears they had not succeeded in extending their explorationsall over the island. They had skirted its whole shore, andhad explored thoroughly the regions within convenient walk-ing distance of the camp. In 1882 they engaged a numberof houses in different parts of the island where the mem-bers could pass the night or get meals; so that they couldconveniently travel on foot all about the island, and coverthe whole ground for geological and botanical exp
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