Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Pan American Airways began practical preparations for its line between San Francisco and Canton, William T. Miller of the Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys...
...catalogue of the galaxies in the Horologium area is part of the general survey of external galaxies in progress at the University. Objects are recorded according to position, brightness, diameter, form, and structure...
...English department is at present giving two general survey courses in English literature; English 1 (28) and 2 (79). The first is handled chronologically; the second deals more or less indiscriminately with types. What is more to be emphasized is that they both cover approximately the same ground, and ground which in all probability has been covered the last year at secondary school. This situation is unnecessary and could be remedied by two changes...
...restrict English 1 to men who want merely a general survey course touching on the high points and not spending much time on the bulk of material usually included in such a review. Similarly, advance English 2 for those men who have the groundwork and who want a highly detailed, painstaking course in English literature. This change would meet both demands...
Science is a field of such increasing importance in the life of every individual that it is high time there were some course at Harvard which filled the need for information of the average student. There has long been a need of a course which would survey the whole scientific field from an untechnical point of view, a course which would give one a perspective on scientific history, and teach one to appreciate the significance of modern science...