Word: america
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Walter Camp of Yale announces his selection of the All-America football teams for 1909 in the current issue of Collier's Weekly. Two Harvard men, H. Fish, Jr., '10 and W. M. Minot '11, are given places on the first eleven. R. G. McKay '11 and P. Withington '10 are placed on the second team. On the two elevens Yale has nine players, Harvard four, Dartmouth and Michigan three each, and Brown, Pennsylvania and Minnesota one each. Princeton is not represented...
...This Museum has been a link in a long chain of manifestations of friendliness between Germany and America. The German Emperor, the King of Saxony, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, German City Governments and a number of American friends of German culture have generously helped its cause...
...trust this Museum will stand as a monument for what Germany has contributed to the culture of the world, and that it will be a permanent symbol of the friendship between America and the old Fatherland. As an American of German descent, I am proud to be able to assist in this worthy cause. Very cordially yours. ADOLPHUS BUSCH...
Passing from Bolivia to Peru, the traveller notices at once the remains of the ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in the fifteenth century. The method by which these immense rocks were cut to fit into each other so exactly is still a mystery to archaeologists...
From the stonehenge the lecturer proceeded to Arequipa, the site of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. This town, although far from any other settlement of size, is much more advanced than the cities to the south. The sanitary condition is unusual for South America, and there is a club established by the members of the observatory staff. Professor Brewster concluded his lecture with views and a brief description of Lima, the mountain capital of Peru...