Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1901-06-30

Hampshire mountains. among which
Chocurua maj stically visible toward
the northeast, is perhaps the best
known, Harvard university has this
year established a summer school Of en-
cheering which. unlike most summer
schools, is regularly connected with
the courses Of instruction that occupy
the winter terms. The little colony,
which comprises "a students from the
Lawrence scientific school with their
instructors and camp followers, marks
the first real settlement of this particu-
lar spot since the defeat of the Pemige-
wasset Indians by Bakers Rangers in
1712 and the removal of the tribe itself
to Canada. The permanence of the new
settlement--the Harvard Engineering
Camp, as It will hereafter be called is
assured by the fact that the university
has purcha aad 400 acres Of land adjoin-
ing the lake and is erecting substan-
tial camp buildings large enough to ac-
commodata 100 studenta
The tract itself, heavily wooded in
part and including one small hill and a
portion of another, extends back from
the waters edge toward Red Hill,
about 1900 feet high and well known
both for the beauty OF its view and the
important scientific Information that
modern geology has gathered from its
gray sienite lodges. It is surrounded
by thougards of acres of unoccupied
country through which one can go for
twenty miles without seeing either a
dwelling or a cultivated field. The
character Of the country is thus parti-
cularly fitted for its new uses. Mount
Israel, crowned with a beacon Of the
United States coast survey, is a prom
inent landmark on the north, on the
west Mount Morgan and Mount Pres
colt are conspicuous and High Hath,
jutting our into the lake and cutting
in two the southern view, combines
with the squam mountains and the
| other lesser peaks to increase still fur
| Their the value OF what might be called
a natural laboratory for the study at
first hand Of the varied problems of the
surveyor, the railroad engineer, and the
geodecist.
The movement which has thus
turned the spot where the Canadian In
dams frequently camped on their way
to attack the early settlers Of New
England into a permanent modern
| camp for the advancement of one of
the most civilizing prof ssions has been
almost six years In developing and is
due to the policy of the engineering
department at Harvard, being the out
come Of the belief that all instruction
in the more practical courses should be
given where the actual application of
abstract principles can be made imme-
diately. and where the student may
come in direct personal contact with
the natural obstacles which, theoret-
cally, he Is learning to overcome. a
beginning was made six summers ago
at Martha's Vineyard, where a few
students went for a short course In
practical surveying. Gradually more
summer work was attempted, larger
parties cert out. and this year the met
amorphosis is complete. In fact all the
| future instruct ton of the university in
| field. engineering is to be given during
the summer months Of June. July, and
August in this natural workshop in the
| New Hampshire hills.
| The government of the camp Is in
the hands of Mr.. Daniel l. Turner, in
| structor in surveying, who has already
had the management Of the smaller
parties which began the movement
While he may b called the principal
of the summer school of engineering,
or, to be more exact, the chief engineer
in charge Of the survey. he is in fact
the governor Of lively, wide-awake
and vigorous colony. though less diff
cult to manage than one might at first
suppose. since it's members are al
work eight hours day and the course
| is not one that appeals 20 idlcrs. As
his lieutenants Mr.. Turner has four
recent graduates Of the engineering
course-assstant engineers in charge OF
different corps, to use the phraseology
of practical survey. These men. like
Mr.. Turner himself, have had previous
| experience in the actualities OF a camp
| ing expedition, and have under them
a steward and corps of helpers to pro
pare the camp mess and look after the
outfit-no small matter VIXEN one con-
siders the number OF Knives, forks
spoons. kettles, blankets and other i'm
pedimenta needed by 80 odd men who
are "roug'hing it, in the woods.
As a rule the members of this unique
| surveying party-with the exception OF
| the chief and assistant engineers-have
| had no previous instruction in survey
| ing, going into camp only with the
| mathematical knowledge necessary To
| fit them for the course. Once in camp
however they live with the regularity
of sellers on campaign, or to use a
| more fitting figure, of genuine survey
| preparing the way for a great railroad
| or government enterprise. The ar
| rangement Of the system under which
| such enterprises are regularly con-
ucted. The 81 students are divided into
parties of four or five, each with one
member in charge as transitman or
leVelman, and with the others acting
as linesmen. rodmen. and chainmen as
the case may be. This is the unit Of
the system, as in an actual working
| survey, each assistant engineer has I'M
der his direction a corps consisting of
three or four of these smaller parties
and communicates the instructions of
their several heads or captains. In the
smaller parties there is a constant ro-
tation of offices, SO that each man gets
personal experience in all the branches
of the work, keeping his own field
note book. working up his own notes,
and doing his own plotting in figur-