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Delves into the Association of American Geographers in the U.S. Discussion of the organization of the association; Identification of the association's presidents; Analysis of the National Council of Geography Teachers.

Discusses the significance of the geographic sectionalism in the political history of the United States. Resemblance of the country's domestic political processes with those of Europe; Examples of how political maps and geographic regions became conflicted; Evidence of sectionalism in the colonial period.

Focuses on the return of rhetoricians in 16th-century England to classicism concerning the nature of public speaking. Overview of English study of classicism; Continental works most cited by English writers; Contributions of Francis Bacon to the development of rhetorical theory.

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Focuses on the commercial importance of fog control. Human factor in geography; Effects of fog on history.

Points out that geographical materials recording during the closing years of the 18th century and the opening years of the next provide a foundation for a regional reconstruction of the Atlantic seaboard. Viewpoints in historical geography; Inadequacy of geographical materials before the 1790s; Classification of geographical materials into works of organization and sporadic observations.

Examines the role of grasslands and farmlands as factors in the cyclical development of Eurasian history. Origin in the permanent fertility of the irrigated valleys of Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus; Sign of fortification about the villages until culture elements from the Near East; Removal of international tensions before making explosions; Treatment of any war.

The article looks at some general trends that are observable during the first half of the twentieth century. Nearly all scientific research was done in the universities. The decline of international science before the first world war is described. From 1919 to 1934 there was a fifteen year period in which science was unhampered by national boundaries, in which many great advances were made and in which cooperation of all kinds flourished so well that this was not a subject for special comment. This was the period that American science began to mature.

The article discusses the "Black Hole" incident that happened in Calcutta in connection with the British conquest of India. Innumerable histories, major and minor, record the short but horrible tale; sober encyclopedias give it the respectable stamp of their authority and more recently, solid medical, engineering and psychological textbooks fathered by famous research commissions and past presidents of various scientific and professional associations have by their repeated references thereto all but universalized an awareness of this episode. One hardly encounters any lay or professional discussion of atmospheric or ventilation problems which does not compulsively mention the Black Hole, as though this chapter of technology could not be adequately covered or reported without this scholarly adornment. Later physiological chemists have questioned the popular Victorian explanation that the excess saturation of the available air with carbon dioxide or "human miasma" could have been the responsible cause for the deaths reported but not even these technicians extended their skepticism to the "event" as such.

Emphasizes the unity between the arts of history, public address and literature. Distinction of public address from the art of literature and history; Explanation of the techniques used by famous orators; Factors involved in an ideal speech.