Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting to note that the six geologists who have been selected for the survey of Alaska,- Messrs. Eldridge, Keith, Mendenhall, Brooks, Schroder and Spurr-are all Harvard men and received their training here. This is made more noteworthy by the fact that the man who made the selection is not a graduate of the University nor in any way interested in Harvard...
...Brattle street, on Monday and Thursday evenings in February and March at 8 o'clock, Mr. Peirce is a brother of Dean Peirce of the Graduate School, and has been a lecturer on logic at the Johns Hopkins University and was also a member of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Peirce is the most prominent logician in the United States. His improvements in the Algebra of Logic are of world wide reputation...
...LONDON, CONN., Dec. 6, 1897.- The New London Board of Trade, through its regatta committee, has just completed a new survey of the Thames River with a view to ascertaining officially the capabilities of that course for intercollegiate boat races...
With the start and finish at the same points as in the four-mile course for Harvard-Yale races in former years the survey shows that after the first half mile the course follows the centre of the channel thus giving every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet...
...used as an argument in favor of class debating societies. The real reason, however, of this apparent dying of interest is that debating activity has been transferred. In English 30 and English 6 Juniors and Seniors find opportunity for all the debating that time allows. A general survey of the field shows that the Sophomore class is the only one not expressly provided for, the Freshman Debating Club, English 30 and English 6 furnishing adequate opportunities for the three other classes. Sophomores, however, can do most valuable work in keeping alive the interest in the present upper-class clubs...