Word: americas
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These ruins have excited great interest from being the most remarkable architectural remains of pre-Columbian time in America. In recent years Dr. Tozzer, as well as other archeologists, has given much time to exploration and study of the ruins, and of the state of civilization they record. The Peabody Museum possesses large collections from Yucatan, and many models or the ruins found there as well as numerous photographs will be shown by Dr. Tozzer. The present inhabitants of Yucatan, the Lacondones, a tribe which Dr. Tozzer has studied with particular care, have sadly deteriorated since they produced such wonderful...
...government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...
...lectures are related to exhibits in different parts of the Museum and are intended to aid visitors in appreciating the collections. The case of meteorites in the Mineralogical Museum will form the basis of the first lecture by Professor Wolff. The extensive collections and models of ruins from Central America in the Peabody Museum will be described in the illustrated lecture by Dr. Tozzer...
...among the Indians of California and of Dr. W. C. Farabee '00 among the pre-historic earthworks in the Ohio valley are spoken of in the report. Last March Dr. A. M. Tozzer '00 made a four weeks' lecture trip under the auspices of the Archeological Institute of America, including in his itinerary 19 of the principal cities between Boston and Chicago. Dr. Tozzer spent the summer in Europe studying Spanish manuscripts at Seville and visiting the principal museums...
...Farlow has continued to present the Museum with valuable specimens illustrative of the life and customs of the North American Indians. Dr. L. C. Jones '87 has secured for the Museum a large number of objects from the Pacific islands and from different parts of North and South America. Among other gifts, a collection of reproductions of mural paintings and frescos in Yucatan, and an old manuscript volume in the Pocom language of Guatemala have been received...