Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty years since the first ancient world was sent of America, to investigate the remains of Assos. The site was well chosen, and the results of the nearly three years' work of the expedition proved of exceptional interest, and were a contribution of essential value to the knowledge of classical antiquity in general, and of Greek civic architecture in particular...
...book is desired by students not only in this country, but also in Europe. It will do credit to America, and it would be matter of regret on many accounts were its publication to fail through lack of support. I therefore venture to ask all those who are interested in the advance of good learning, and who are able to do so, to send to Mr. Harris their names as subscribers. The sooner the list of subscribers reaches the required number, the sooner will the first part of the work be issued...
...expedition has been planned for botanical and zoological research in South America this summer. Though managed primarily by private persons, Harvard and the University of Chicago are interested in the enterprise...
...present edition of the book will be supplemented next fall by another edition, which will contain, in addition to the anthology, a treatise on Spanish prosody and a set of notes. The present edition is to be circulated in South America, and will be used in the University this spring. The annotated edition will be used by the Spanish department as a text-book, beginning with next year...
...University observatory at Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere is very broad, as comparatively little original work has been done there. Harvard...