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Harvard's geology department is almost certainly the best in the country. Sparkling lecture artists like Kirtley F. Mather and L. Don Leet brighten up many of the classrooms, and the high teacher-student ratio makes up for the missing tutorial...
Faculty members use the service quite a bit. I.A. Richards, University Professor, has had the group microfilm slides for his Basic English and Basic French work., L. Don Leet, Ph.D. '30, professor of Geology, uses the service to have seismology graphs reproduced...
...England had its last major quake in 1755, after which the ground stayed pretty quiet until about 1920. Since then, the earth's crust in this area has shown a tendency to come to life, Leet said, with an average of five or six minor quakes a year...
Recurrance of frequent minor earthquakes in New England in the last 30 years after a 150 year lapse leads geologists to believe that local tremors will steadily increase both in frequency and in force, Leet said...
Geologists are now studying the region to attempt to predict when this increase should be expected. Some now think it will come within the next 30 to 50 years, Leet said...