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...Charles A. Gregory, of Chicago. delivered last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History society, an extremely interesting lecture on "The Great American Desert," or, as Mr. Gregory calls it, "The Arid Region...
...Gregory, of Chicago, who will lecture this evening on "The Great American Desert, or the Arid Regions and the Means of its Reclamation," is a member of the class...
...would not interfere with private water rights, for the government would own the streams. The riparian doctrine is unsuited to the West.- Powell's Arid Regions of the West...
...appreciative audience in Sever 3. Mr. Eliot followed out a line of argument which was based upon the facts of observation rather than on a plausible theory. The lands of the Mediterranean were once called the gardens of the world, but to day these once fertile fields have become arid deserts. What has been the cause of the great climatic change, whereby these countries have lost their former power to produce large crops, and no longer are able to support as large a population as formerly? A number of cases where water-courses and lakes have decreased in volume while...
...temporary expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning...