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...Carter '00, who sails for India today. Mr. Carter goes to India invited by the British College Union, and the India National Committee for religious and educational work among the Hindu students. His territory will cover Bengal, the Punjab, and the northwest Indian Provinces, an area two thousand miles long and a thousand miles broad. In this region Mr. Carter will act as advisor of the Christian Associations among the native students, combining and unifying the work of those already established and encouraging the promotion of new ones where the demand is evident...
...eighteen men who are taking Geology 22 under Dr. Jagger are engaged in a systematic geological survey of the Metropolitan District of Boston, with a view to the publication of an accurate map of the area, based on the new topographical work of the United States Geological Survey. Dr. Jagger is a regular officer of this survey, and the men in the course act as volunteer assistants. For the past two years the class has completed maps and collections of small parts of the area; this year the whole area is under survey, from Marblehead and Nantasket on the east...
...years ago, I think it was, Messrs. Henry and Frank Higginson conceived an admirable method of securing a large tract of land just outside on the thickly built districts of Boston, about twenty acres in area, for the purpose of putting there a group of medical buildings at some day in the future...
...model, a solid piece of plaster thirty feet in circumference, is the largest of the kind yet produced in this country and by far the most accurate. The area represented is nearly five hundred square miles, embracing the territory within a radius of twelve miles from Boston...
...Railroading (Engineering 4a, 4c, and 4d) will be given hereafter entirely in the summer. The land is well located within a few miles of Centre Harbor, which will be the Post Office address. It is especially well adapted for topographic work of any kind and for hydrographic survey. The area is about 1 1-2 miles of lake front on the farm. The lake itself, about eight miles in length by two in width, is situated in a spur of the White Mountains, and contains a large number of islands...