Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire. In recognition...
...other accession, from the gift of Dr. John Bryant '03, of Cohassett, Mass a valuable collection of soapstone lamps, cooking pots and various other articles taken from the graves of Eskimos of the North Labrador peninsula. The collection, which was made by Dr. Bryant during a visit to the Labrador coast last summer, will be on exhibition the latter part of this month. A miniature group, illustrating the houses of the Eskimos of Baffin Land, has recently been set up and is now on exhibition on the second floor of the museum...
...results of their investigations are to appear later in the Technology Quarterly. The party visited all the islands of the Aleutian chain from Unimak Pass to Atka. It was found that the island of Bogoslof was one of the wonders of volcanology. This island volcano is northwest of the peninsula of Alaska. It first appeared as the result of an eruption in 1796, and it has been more or less active ever since...
...HARVARD BOTANICAL CLUB. "The Flora of the Shickshock Mountains, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec." Professor Fernald. Nash Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "A Trip across the Gaspe Peninsula," Professor Fernald. "Types of Sedimentary Overlap and their Significance in Stratigraphic Correlation." Professor A. W. Grabau, Geological Lecture Room...