Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hammer is to be thrown from a 30 foot circle, which of course amounts to an unlimitee run. The shot will be put from a ten foot square, which will not have the toe-board prescribed by the American rules...
...last in the course of lectures on Anthropology was given at the Peabody Museum yesterday afternoon by Professor Putnam on the subject of American Archaeology. The shortness of the time allowed but a brief survey of the most interesting features of archaeological study in North America...
...North American continent is divided into districts which are more or less definitely distinguished by the differences in the characteristic forms of art and culture among the ancient inhabitants. There was one type of art on the northwestern coast, another in a district that begins south of this and extends eastward past the Great Lakes and by way of the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic coast; two districts adjoining each other in the middle Atlantic region and extending to the west and south; the Pueblo district in the southwest, and another around California. There are marks of a migration from...
Lecture. American Archeaology. Professor Putnam. Peabody Museum...
...University Extension summer meeting is to be held this year in the buildings of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, July 2-28. This is the second summer meeting under the auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University teaching. The conveniences and facilities of the University of Pennsylvania have been placed at the disposal of the summer meeting and a corps of lecturers have been engaged from various institutions...