Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Probably few men in college know of the great amount of work that is going on at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The collections in the museum are very valuable, and a great deal of original investigation is being carried on in Mexico and Central America under the charge of Professor F. W. Putnam, the curator of the museum. These investigations are proving very successful and the results obtained will be of the utmost value for ethnological study...
...most valuable workers for the museum is Miss Alice C. Fletcher. She has been devoting herself to the study and improvement of the Indian race in America. Her long visits to the to the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Sioux and Nez Perce Iddians have given Miss Fletcher a deep insight into the character of the Indian race, and have enabled her to obtain for the museum trophies and relics from the different tribes which before have probably never been seen by the eyes of any other race. Among these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps...
Boston University offers instruction in a larger number of languages than any other institution in America...
...America has done much to develop the present condition of classical studies; and in this branch of knowledge, as well as in other branches, our students have shown such zeal and activity, together with such accuracy of work, that foreigners have been forced to look upon the results with much respect. This school at Athens is only an example of the energy and ability of American students...
Besides the work done in Athens the influence of the institution has proved to be very beneficial to studies of the classics in America. After a residence of a year or so at Athens the instructor or student is sure to return to his American college, full of enthusiasm as well for the school itself as for every branch of the work pursued...