Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, was one of great interest to orientalists and laymen alike. Harvard professors figured conspicuously in the gathering as well as other representative scholars from many parts of the country...
...Peters, director of the exploring party now on its way from Philadelphia to Chaldea. The recent newspaper report of serious accident to the party is an exaggeration. The steamer conveying part of the expedition did, indeed, meet with misfortune off the coast of the island of Samos, but the American party suffered no loss. Professor Peters was not with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would succeed, after which it was his purpose to join the party...
...last meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes, a committee consisting of Messrs. G. A. Avery, H. Mapes, H. Pike and T. A. McEwan was selected to make arrangements for the team of American athletes which will visit Europe next summer. The team will be composed of the winners of the eighteen events at the great National Amateur Association meeting to be held on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club, in New York city, the week before the intercollegiate games. The month of June will be spent in the trip across the ocean and in contests at Cork...
Prof. Tarbell has safely arrived at Athens where he has gone to take the position of temporary resident director of the American School of Classical Studies. The success of this school during the past few years has frequently been noted; although possessed of comparatively small means, it has done as much towards the promotion of archxological science as either the French or German schools...
...article in the North American Review of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard," is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...