Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement made on our first page of the sixth session of the Summer School of Geology shows that during the coming vacation the geologists among the students will be given an opportunity for field work that will prove no doubt very attractive and profitable. Although heretofore the sessions have been uniformly pleasant we feel that we are justified that the plan laid out for this year surpasses them all. The Catskills and the Berkshire Hills are charming summer retreats and the advantage of combining pleasure with work thus will be made easy. We can prophesy that the former will...
...school will open on July 6th at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, where a fortnight will be spent in introductory work and in short daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' session will be divided between the Connecticut Valley, the Hoosac Valley and vicinity, in northwestern Massachusetts, and the foothills of the Catskill mountains in eastern New York. Some central, characteristic point in each district, easily accessible by railroad, will be taken for headquarters and short excursions made from it. The plan of the school, so far as it can now be stated, is as follows...
...than June 1st. Before their enrolment on June 15th, they will pay a tuition fee of thirty dollars ($30). Each student will bear his own living and travelling expenses, but these will be reduced as much as possible by special arrangements with hotels and railroads. The cost of the session cannot be exactly reckoned beforehand, but it is estimated as follows: Six weeks' boarding and lodging $40 to $60; travelling expenses with the school...
...coast at several points between Cape Ann and Cohasset, and at certain inland areas selected to show the nature and distribution of drift deposits and other phenomena. The laboratory work will be arranged to illustrate as far as possible the problems encountered in the field during the session of the school...
...evening session of the convention was devoted to the making out of a schedule, which proved a laborious piece of work. Before adjourning at midnight the following arrangement had been adopted...