Word: regionalizing
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...paper of Mr. Russell will be the result of original studies made during an extended residence among the Indians in the region of the Great Slave Lake...
...Fiske spoke of the important part played by the Scotch-Irish in the history of the Alleghany region. About 1730 they began pouring into the Shenandoah Valley, bringing Democracy and Presbyterianism where hitherto the Cavalier ideas and the Established Church had held sway. This conflict resulted in a thing most happy for the colony-the separation of church and state. "Indeed," said the lecturer, "the Shenandoah may be called the cradle of Democracy...
This advance into the great woods brought about the conflict with the French, who claimed the region by right of La Salle's discoveries. They advanced down the Alleghany region, building forts as they came, till in 1753 the governor of Virginia sent George Washington to warn them against further aggression. In the war which followed the individual history of Virginia becomes merged with that of the other colonies with whom she became leagued in the struggle...
Another geological expedition from Princeton will visit the West during the summer. The party will go to the southwestern part of the United States and explore sections of Arizona, especially the northern part, including the Canon of the Colorado. There is probably no region in the country which offers more varied or more interesting material for geological investigation than this canon. Explorations will be made also to study the remains of the Cliff-dwellers and the Pueblo Indians in the mountains, which are supposed to be rich in specimens and much valuable information is expected to be obtained here...
...process of exploration so that their structure is in part understood; but a great amount of work is still to be done before all the structures of this ancient city are known. The ruins extend for several miles along the Copan river and give evidence that this region once sustained a numerous population...