Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There will be an extra examination in Geology 8 for those men who are going upon the United States Geological survey this summer...
...school library, then, is one of the most useful aids to the study of geography; another important help is a collection of maps, photographs and diagrams. The United States Coast Survey has made careful engravings of almost all parts of the American coast, and illustrations taken from these maps give a much better idea of the subject than can be gained from a very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they...
...went to California, and, shortly after, entered the service of the Geological Expedition for the exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. At first he was employed as one of the topographers, but on the resignation of Mr. W. W. Bailey, now of Providence, he became Botanist to the Survey. He examined the plants which were collected, first at New Haven in Professor Eaton's Herbarium, and afterwards at Cambridge. From 1870 he resided in Cambridge, attached to the Gray Herbarium, and, on Dr. Gray's death, took charge of the Herbarium, continuing Dr. Gray's systematic work. The results...
...years 1853-4 and 1857-70 Professor Lovering was Regent of the University. He was interested in the Harvard Observatory and its growth was largely due to his energy. In 1867-76 he was connected with the United States Coast Survey. In 1868-9 he was granted a year's absence and in 1879 received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard. From 1854 to 1873 he was permanent secretary of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science and edited fifteen volumes of its proceedings. He had been elected a member of the American Acad. of Arts and Sciences...
...Department of Ethics, in charge of Professor Phelix Adler, Ph. D. He will give a course of eighteen lectures on the System of Applied Ethics, including a brief survey of the various schemes of classification adopted in ancient and modern ethical systems, the discussion of the relation of religious to moral instruction, of the development of the conscience in the child, etc. The Scheme of Duties treated will embrace Personal Ethics, Social Ethics in general, the Ethics of the family, the Ethics of the Professions, the Ethics of Politics, the Ethics of Friendship, the Ethics of Religious Association. The Scheme...