Word: divisional
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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In a division of the universe the fundamental distinction is between things conscious and unconscious. From this division we have physical sciences and philosophical sciences. To this latter class belongs ethics, which deals with a conscious being in his conscious moods, but which finally narrows itself to treat of those...
Mr. F. H. Newell, hydrographer of the U. S. Geological Survey, delivered an address before the Engineering Society last night, upon the investigations being made by the Division of Hydrography of the water resources of the country. His descriptions were illustrated by maps, views and diagrams, showing the operations of...
Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Division of Forestry, spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "Forestry as a Profession." He said in part: The science of forestry began in France about the time of the Revolution, spread to Germany, and soon after became a...
He graduated in 1889 from Yale and then went abroad to study forestry in Germany and France. Upon his return he opened an office in New York as consulting forester. Among the estates which he surveyed and planned out are the Biltmore estate in North Carolina and Mr. Webb's...
Throughout the country also the recent efforts of the division have made apparent the great need for intelligent supervision of the country's forests, and for trained men to carry on this work. Of the future career open to such men and of the conditions under which their work must...