Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor D. G. Loyn h.'01, director of the American School of Archaeology in Jerusalem during 1906-07, will give the second of his series of five illustrated lectures on Palestine in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Southern Palestine" and he will describe a trip through the wildest part of the country along the West shore of the Dead Sea to the mountain of rock salt, and an expedition to Beer Sheba through the country of the Philistines and nomadic Bedouins...
...eighth inter-university cable chess match between Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania on one side, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the other, will be played today from Houston Hall, Philadelphia. The American team will begin play this morning at 10, which, on account of the difference in time between this country and England, makes the English team begin play at 3 P. M. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which has been...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has recently appointed the following Harvard professors as its representatives at coming meetings of European societies of learning: at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the "Reconstitution de Academic des Sciences, Agriculture, Arts et Belles-Lettres d'Aix," at Aix-en Provence in April, Professor E. H. Hall, of the Physics Department; at the "Congress International des Orientalistes," at Copenhagen in August, Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Indic Philology, and Professor G. F. Moore, of the Semitic Department at the Third International Congress, for the History of Religions...
...Child Labor and the Republic," reprinted from the annals for 1907 of the American Academy of Political and Social Science...
Tickets for the Freshman dinner to be held at the American House on Saturday evening, March 28, at 8 o'clock, are now on sale. They may be obtained at the Rendezvous or from any member of the dinner committee...