Word: americas
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Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, of the geological department, will return to Cambridge today from an eight months' scientific investigation in South America. This was the first of a series of similar trips provided for by the Shaler Memorial Fund, a $30,000 gift presented to the University in 1907 by friends of the late Dean N. S. Shaler...
...work in South America done by Professor Woodworth and his associates consisted in the study of glacial phenomena in Brazil, and in the tracing of shore-line changes on the Chile coast south of Valparaiso. W. P. Haynes '10 assisted in the work during the summer vacation. Professor Woodworth will resume his courses in geology at the beginning of the second half-year, his leave of absence having been from June 20, 1908, to February...
Geology 9.--Geographic Influences in North America. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 9. Laboratory one afternoon each week, 1.30 to 5. Assistant Professor D. W. Johnson and Mr. Hyde...
History A5.--History of the Church in America. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 12. Professor Platner...
...written, this work at once commanded wide attention, and it is mainly because of the accurate and broad scholarship displayed in these volumes that Mr. Porritt was invited to give instruction at Harvard. As an active journalist Mr. Porritt is well known both in Europe and in America, and his regular letters to leading English journals on matters of American politics always interest a large circle of readers. The half-course which he is to give will deal with a field in which he possesses unusual proficiency and his lectures will doubtless be both instructive and interesting...