Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sidney Prescott Fay '07 will give an illustrated talk on the "Hunting Trip of 1914" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The party of which Mr. Fay was a member worked under the direction of the Canadian Biological Survey, making a special study of mountain sheep, during a three months' trip in British Columbia last year...
...will meet at Ouray, Colorado. They will go at once into camp, and begin the systematic study of a portion of the San Juan Mountains. For three weeks this work will continue, and the men will be trained in the official methods of field work approved by the National Survey. At the close of that more systematic work an expedition will be conducted through the higher mountains...
...Department of Geology and Geography of the University will be extended this summer. At a meeting of the members of the staff held January 30, it was planned to establish a camp in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Here a five-week course of geological survey work will be conducted, under the direction of Professor W. W. Atwood, Ph.D. The work will commence early in August and close on September 10. This course, open only to a limited number of those who have had at least an introductory college course in Geology, will be credited towards a degree...
...church work; 11 in juvenile courts; 10 in industrial service; 10 in legal aid work; 7 in parks and playgrounds; 6 in entertainment troupe work; 5 each in "friendly visiting," and charity organizations; 4 each in teaching Bible classes, and city mission work, and 8 in social survey service...
After his return to the East he became identified with the United States Geological Survey, on which he was chief geographer until 1902. He was the first secretary, and later president, of the National Geographic Society. He was geographer of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth censuses, and assistant director of the Philippine census in 1902 and of the Cuban census in 1907. He wrote numerous scientific works, chiefly on geographical subjects...