The Journal of Geography, Volumul 7

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National Council for Geographic Education., 1909

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Pagina 6 - ... we commend to all local authorities the necessity of greater care in the arrangement of courses of study, that they may be adapted to the pupils to be instructed, rather than that pupils should be adapted to fixed courses of study and an inflexible system of grading.
Pagina 121 - Among the people of that great city, — the second in size in the United States, — fourteen languages are spoken by groups of not less than ten thousand persons each. Newspapers are regularly published in ten languages; and church services are conducted in twenty different tongues. Measured by the size of its foreign linguistic colonies, Chicago is the second Bohemian city in the world, the third Swedish, the fourth Polish, and the fifth German (New York being the fourth). There is one large factory...
Pagina 33 - Landes were little more than shifting sand dunes and disease-breeding marshes. This section is now one of the richest, most productive and healthful in France. This marvelous change has been brought about by the intelligent cultivation of pine forests. Immense forests now cover the country, the sand dunes and marshes have long since disappeared, and the wood, charcoal, turpentine, rosin, and kindred industries have brought wonderful prosperity to the entire department, which was formerly the most...
Pagina 91 - ... lead to research work in meteorology (Geology 20 «) and in climatology (Geology 20/). The elementary half-course in meteorology is required of all who take the more advanced work. In this first course a half-year is devoted to a study of the more important facts and theories in meteorology. Davis's Elementary Meteorology is used as a text-book. Four hours a week are devoted to laboratory work, which consists chiefly in the construction and study of weather maps and of meteorological charts and...
Pagina 36 - A poor man, with seldom more than a single pack-horse on which the wife and infant were carried, with a few clothes and bed-quilts, a skillet and a small sack of meal, was often seen wending his way along the narrow mountain trace, with a rifle upon his shoulder — the elder sons carrying an axe, a hoe, sometimes an auger and a saw, and the older daughters leading or carrying the smaller children.
Pagina 48 - When properly treated, these woods outlast untreated cedar and oak. which are becoming too scarce and too much in demand for other uses to allow of their meeting the demand for fence posts. Impregnation with creosote has been greatly cheapened by the introduction of the "open tank," which can be installed at a cost of from $30 to $45.
Pagina 48 - Is a saving, with interest at 6 per cent, of 2 cents per post yearly. More important than the saving, however, Is the fact that through preservative treatment other woods are fitted to take the place of cedar, of which the supply is rapidly becoming exhausted. A detailed description of experiments in preserving fence posts, together with practical suggestions for treating them on a commercial scale. are contained in Circular 117 of the Forest Service. This publication can be obtained upon application...
Pagina 36 - The facility of taking up the choice lands of the country, induced great numbers of persons, principally those without means to emigrate to the frontier. A poor man, with seldom more than a single pack-horse on which the wife and infant were carried, with a few clothes and bed-quilts, a skillet and a small sack of meal, was often seen wending his way along the narrow mountain trace, with a rifle upon his shoulder — the elder sons carrying an axe, a hoe, sometimes an...
Pagina 41 - ... cherua, in great aboundaunce, and sondry apothecary druggs, which are nowe found likewise as frequent in our north parte ; it is a fruitfull countrey, and not much subject to cold ; in this country it was that Sir Walter Raleigh planted his two colonies, in the islande aforesaid, called Roanoack. . . . The sommer here is hot as in Spaine, the winter cold as in Fraunce or England ; the heate of the sommer is in June, July, and August, but comonly the cool breeses asswage the vehemency of the heat...
Pagina 230 - If a subscriber wishes his copy of the magazine discontinued at the expiration of his subscription, notice to that effect should be sent. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired.

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