Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fortieth annual report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, issued by Professor F. W. Putnam '62, begins by mentioning the generous services of the late Mr. Stephen Salisbury '56, who was a member of the Faculty of the Museum, and the appointment of Mr. Augusts Hemenway '75 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Salisbury. In continuing, the report describes the recent expeditions and other activities of the department and enumerates the additions and gifts made to the Museum. Professor Putnam deplores the fact that the Museum is becoming greatly hampered by lack...
...Lewis H. Farlow has continued to present the Museum with valuable specimens illustrative of the life and customs of the North American Indians. Dr. L. C. Jones '87 has secured for the Museum a large number of objects from the Pacific islands and from different parts of North and South America. Among other gifts, a collection of reproductions of mural paintings and frescos in Yucatan, and an old manuscript volume in the Pocom language of Guatemala have been received...
...judges of the theses were Professor F. H. Dixon of Dartmouth College, Mr. Albert Shaw of the "American Review of Reviews," and Professor T. W. Page of the University of Virginia...
After all we have only just begun to do things as a nation. We can rely on that distinctive characteristic of the American people, judicial will to work out justly and successfully the problems of the present and of the future. The Philippine Islands, which are ours; Hawai, which is ours; the Panama Canal, which will be ours; plus a merchant marine, which we must have, will enable us to send our matchless resources of farm and factory into every clime and into every port...
...informal address this morning at 12 o'clock in the large lecture room of Robinson Hall, before the students in the department of Architecture. This address will be open only to men taking courses in architecture. Sir Aston Webb, who has recently received a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects in acknowledgment of his work, will be given a private reception this afternoon by the Boston Society of Architects...