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...taught principally by lectures, which are amply illustrated by lantern slides, diagrams, and numerous specimens on the lecturer's table. The subject deals with the chemical and mechanical wear and waste of the land, the actions of rivers, waves, glaciers, and wind, the origin and formation of mountains, plateaus, and valleys, the origin, actions, and effects of earth-quakes and volcanoes...
...mount socially and who deserves her progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped down upon her. At Newport she has climbed to those higher social plateaus where dwell susceptible Russian princes, envious rivals--and troublesome servants. At Boston she has reached the heights of Beacon Hill and goes to and fro in a society that has only first names, that speaks the language of super-refinement and precision; and that is deeply and equally solicitous over...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Age of the Great Forks of the Arizona and Utah Plateaus." Professor D. W. Johnson. "Vesuvius after the Eruption of 1905." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. E. J. Saunders. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Age of the Great Forks of the Arizona and Utah Plateaus." Professor D. W. Johnson. "Vesuvius after the Eruption of 1905." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. E. J. Saunders. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
Professor Davis will conduct a summer geological trip, starting the latter part of June, to the desert plateaus of northwestern Arizona. E. Huntington 1G. and J. W. Goldthwait '02 will accompany him, and probably several other members of the University...