Word: regions
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Berea College, situated in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, is an institution for the education of the negroes, and more especially the "poor whites" of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains, the stock from which Abraham Lincoln came. It is endeavoring to do for the people of that region what the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes are doing for the negroes in the south...
...beginning August 15 and ending September 23. The members of the course will meet in St. Louis, and will first make an excursion through New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California to the Pacific coast, returning through Nevada and Utah, to study some of the larger geological features in the region traversed. Those who give five weeks to field study and submit a satisfactory report may receive credit for a half-course. The total expense of the trip, including fee for the course, will be about $221. All who wish to go should make application for enrolment to Mr. C.H. White...
...secured in Provincetown for about $1.50 per day. The party will leave the train at North Truro, walk to High Head to trace the development of the shore line, thence to Highland Light and will take the evening train to Provincetown. Sunday will be spent examining the dune region about Provincetown. Monday morning the party will visit Long Point to make a further study of the shore line. Men should wear old clothes and bring lunch if possible...
Professor W. M. Davis will continue his studies of former years on the great Basin Region of Utah, and will receive advanced students in his party as fellow-workers...
...representing certain phases of life among the Eskimos of Northern Labrador, has recently been purchased by the Peabody Museum. The collection was made by Dr. Grenfell, who has charge of the Deep Sea Mission along the coast of Alaska and who is greatly interested in the people of that region. The carvings are unusually good examples of the work done by the Eskimos, and form a variable addition to the collections of the Museum...