Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short paper by Mrs. A. L. Hill is devoted to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College from 1778 to 1795. Other papers are by E. A. Start on St. Johnsbury, Vermont; by J. F. Jameson, Ph. D. on the "History of Historical Writing in America"; by William Clarke or William Morris, "poet, artist, prophet and agitator" and by Lillie Chase Wyman on "Colored Churches and Schools in the South...
...Waldstein, the representative at Athens of the Archaeological Institute of America, has, in accordance with the directions of President Seth Low of Columbia College, withdrawn the American claims to the right to carry on the excavations at Delphi. Under the terms of a treaty but lately negotiated, the French have revived their claims to the right of making these excavations. The Archaeological Institute raised money for the purchase of the village of Castri and for carrying on the excavations, under the impression that the French, by their rejection of a former treaty, had given up all intention of making...
...seen the mineralogical collection upstairs, has doubtless been surprised at the size of the collection, and at the rare beauty of some of the specimens. But unless he were a connoisseur he would hardly realize that this was one of the two finest collections of the kind in America, the other being at Yale. The European collections which surpass the Harvard one are those at the British Museum, at Vienna, and at Paris. All of these collections, however, have been aided by subsidies from the government. The Harvard collection has the virtue of being practically the work...
Among the rare specimens that Professor Cooke has obtained is a remarkable collection of meteorites. There is not another collection like it in America, and even the British Museum cannot produce such specimens as some of those to be seen in the Harvard Collection. Although the study of meteorites is only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount...
...from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...