Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Archaeological Institute of America offers six fellowships for the year 1901-1902; three in Greek Archaeology, one with a stipend of $1000 and two with stipends of $600 each; two in Roman Archaeology, of $600 each; and one in Christian Archaeology, of $500. The work of the Fellows in Greek Archaeology will be done at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the work of the other Fellows at the School at Rome. All the fellowships will be awarded on a basis of written competitive examinations, although one Fellow each year may be reappointed at the discretion...
...First Parish Church will open the service with a prayer, after which the Glee Club will sing "Fair Harvard." This will be followed by the oration, which will be delivered by the Hon. John Read of the class of '62. The services will close with the singing of "America" by the Glee Club, and a benediction by Mr. Crothers...
...York, "in grateful recognition of the long and great friendship which Professor Norton has shown him since his boyhood, and in order to record in a fitting manner the eminent services which Professor Norton has rendered the cause of Archaeology, and his beneficient prominence in the Archaeological Institute of America and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens...
...Department of History. The first of these is on "Feudalism in Canada," by W. B. Munro 2G. It goes deeply into a subject of which little has been known heretofore. When the French came over to Canada, in early colonial times, they transplanted the Feudal System from Europe to America, where it remained till 1854, long after the English came into power in Canada. The system was almost identical with that of the Middle Ages; forced labor was everywhere demanded; and the tenants went regularly to Quebec to do homage to their lords. Finally the farming communities became so oppressed...
...annual meeting of the council of the Archaeological Institute of America, held in New York last Saturday, it was decided to open the school at Jerusalem next October. The office of resident director for the first year has been tendered to Professor C. C. Torrey, Ph.D., a noted Semitic scholar, who has recently been called from the Andover Theological Seminary to the chair in Yale University...