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...award of $2,000 to L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...
...arrangement is in two long rows on either side of a court which will be called Shaler Lane in memory of the late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62. Dean Shaler, who was for many years Professor of Geology at the University and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, was always known for his interest in the personal and human problems of his students. This was undoubtedly one of the chief elements in his popularity among all those who knew him. It was felt by the sponsors of the new project, which is to lessen the difficulties of married graduates, that...
...leadership among American universities. Since the founding of the College in 1636, this leadership has been bound up inseparably with a tradition rich in the names of great teachers and illustrious graduates. From Dunster and Mather descends an unbroken line of famous professors down to Peirce, Longfellow, Gray, Norton, Shaler, Agassiz, Palmer, James, and Briggs. Graduates like Jonathan Trumbull, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, have carried throughout the civilized world Harvard thought and Harvard ideals. In the community, in the State, and in the country, for nearly three hundred years...
...sixth and last of the series of Shaler Memorial Lectures on "The Quaternary Ice Age," will be given tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room by Dr. Ernst Antevs...