Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening Professor Shaler gave an informal talk concerning the opportunities of a career in practical Geology and Engineering. He said that he considered the outlook for geologists in this country to be a very promising one. The state surveys and those made by the government employ about 1500 men, who receive salaries ranging from $4000 a year downward. The pay a man may expect to receive his first year is about $50 a month and field expenses. One of the best tields for a geologist is in the mines. The salary of a mine superintendent in the eastern part...
Professor Shaler stated that he would be glad to talk over the subject more fully with any one who might be interested...
What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...
There is some talk of forming a Western Collegiate Press Association...
...deserves the attention and reflection not only of those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating as it does of a matter of vital importance in college life. Such matters are not generally discussed in the college press but a little plain, sober talk like this, by a man evidently in earnest, and professedly experienced, is quite timely and appropriate...