Word: northern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...made a number of trips into the Arctic with famous explorers, including MacMillan, Stefansson, W. B. Cabot and Nikkelsson, and he has become one of the acknowledged authorities on northern exploration...
Lectues will be given in Military Science 2 by Professors H. L. Smyth, W. W. Atwood, and others on such subjects as the making of topographical maps, the interpretation of such maps in relation to soils, subsoils, rock structures, and underground water, and the topography and surface geology of Northern France. Of most interest, will be a series of lectures on photographic surveying, including surveying from aeroplanes. Practical work in the field, the reading of maps, and the study of models will be undertaken in connection with the lectures. In the elementary course, the first principles of the construction...
...west coast of the continent we find one of the most valuable of the materials for warlike preparation in the nitrate of northern Chile. This substance is not found in marketable quantities elsewhere, and is very necessary for the manufacture of explosives. In this connection it might be said that the trade in iodine, an invaluable commodity for surgical purposes, is entirely controlled by the iodine Combination of the nitrate companies. Because of her nitrate and iodine, if for no other reason, an understanding with Chile is not only, desirable but essential...
...countries and the United States. It has already accomplished much in producing a better mutual understanding between our own country and Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is well that Harvard is taking an active part in this work which will bring us into closer contact with the countries of northern Europe...
...then the evenly balanced values of contact with institutions of high rank, to be gleaned from an exchange with the South, and also for our professors the great value of contact with students, in some of the South's institutions, far more eager to learn than are those Northern students who scarcely know why they are in college. The authorities would be found busy with the enduringly important first principles of education is such institutions, and not obsessed with administrative detail and petty refinements of method. This would be an experience of value to some of our Northern professors...