Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three-days meeting of the Geological Society of America opened in Albany on Dec. 27. Harvard was represented by Professor N. S. Shaler, Professor W. M. Davis, Professor Wolff and Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Professor Davis gave three papers before the meetings, "Excursion to the Colorado Canyon," "Peneplain of Brittany," and "Notes on River Terraces...
...Amorgos, is best regarded as a local phase of the common Mediterranean life. Furthermore it is not unimportant to reflect that the stage of culture out of which emerged first the Amorgan and finally the Mycenaean phase of art and industry was practically identical with that reached in America by the Indians whom our forefathers dispossessed nearly three centuries...
...outside alone, and as a result the South has been put in a false light. The intellectual life of these States was limited, but not arrested. Their social life was unfruitful in philanthropy and literature, but it was then more charming than any other mode of life in America...
...England division of the Fencing League of America is making arrangements for a large tournament open to teams of three men from New England fencing organizations. The tournament will be divided into three contests. The first one will be held on January 12 at either the Boston Athletic Club or in Cambridge, the second at Worcester, and the third at Providence. The dates of the last two contests will be decided on January 12. Each man on each team will fence with every member of every other team...
Professor J. W. White, who is president of the Archaeological Institute will read a paper before the meeting on the Tzetztian Scholia, on the Aves of Aristophanes in Cod. Vat. Urb." Dr. Charles Peabody '90, of Cambridge will read a paper on "Some Prehistoric Stone Ornaments of America," Dr. G. H. Chase '96, of Southborough, will read a paper on "Shield Devices Among the Greeks" and Mr. Edward Robinson '79, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will read a paper entitled "The Magical Papyri as a Source of our Knowledge of Greek Life...