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When Hamilton Rice founded the Geographical Institute of Exploration at Harvard, Raisz came here. And he stayed for 20 years, teaching cartography and caring for the Institute's collection of maps ("The largest in New England."). In 1950, three years after President Conant decided to discontinue the Geography Department, Raisz withdrew his support from the Institute, and it closed...
This was the inevitable consequence of Conant's decision which, says Raisz, "was a pitiful thing to do--the very best people were here...
Since then, Raisz has taught at Clark University, the University of Virginia, and in Rio de Janiero ("I couldn't speak Portuguese--only Spanish--but we got along fine."). This spring he will go to the University of Florda to teach cartography and to work on a state atlas. Soon he intends to do a landform map of Mexico, as well...
Interest in geography is increasing so much that Raisz feels confident land-type maps of the entire Earth will inevitably be made, sooner or later. There are some 75 universities in the United States teaching cartography at present, and the figure is growing...
...this makes Raisz wonder even more why the University has decided to limit so drastically all courses dealing wtih geography. "Even Yale is building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only...