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Geography at Berkeley ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 08/18/99 3:30 pm) WAIS Fellow David Hooson, a UC Berkeley geographer, tells me that Berkeley's Geography Department, the oldest in the United States, will celebrate its 100th birthday, and that he is in charge. I ...
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Geography and the Mind ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 05/16/99 3:32 pm)      I stressed the importance of the location of Kosovo and Cuba. John Wonder comments:      Your emphasis o ...
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Redivivus ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/25/99 3:32 pm) As these memos have frequently pointed out, it is paradoxical that in U.S. universities, geography departments were being abolished just at a time when they w ...
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Harvard and Stanford ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 02/21/99 3:32 pm) In a previous memo about geography, I said I did not know why Harvard did not have a geography department, a bad example which contributed to the abolition of St ...
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Alexander B. Murphy ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 12/14/98 3:28 pm) The Devil in Goethe's "Faust" says that everthing good in the world must be brought down.  Like Faust, academic administrators also must have been listening to him. The Devil is ...
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Geography at Stanford ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 11/25/98 3:28 pm)         I failed in my one-man attempt to save Stanford's Geography Department, but it is good to know that I instilled in my former students a ...
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Geography and Education ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 11/24/98 3:29 pm) See also: Alexander B. Murphy       Alexander B. Murphy, head of the Geography Departme ...
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Geography ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 01/04/98 3:27 pm)  I am getting plenty of support for geography, except among the Stanford administration.  Hoover's Elena Danielson writes:  "Don't give up on prom ...
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Geography ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 01/04/98 3:26 pm) Bill Van Orsdol forwards this article from the New York Times (3/1/99):  "Rural Town Takes on Obstacles to an Internet Connection"  NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - ...
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