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The Neglect Of Geography And Its Perils
by Norman Berdichevsky
In 1843, Jared Sparks (1789-1866), a future President of Harvard (1849-54) while a student there, authored a clarion call for the inclusion of geography in the curriculum of America's colleges. Sparks spoke at a Harvard College debating group, and began…
"Few studies are more useful, few more easily attained, and none more universally neglected, than that of geography." more...