Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University men we feel the immense obligation which America owes the universities of Germany. Our men of letters and science know well the unparalleled contributions Germany has made to pure knowledge and to science in the new arts and industries...
...history has been illustrious in peace and war; as a brother of the emperor, "who is walking resolutely in the footsteps of his fathers;" as a grandson and son of the founders of the German Empire, and as admiral of the German navy. Major Higginson spoke of the debt America owes to Germany for her great figures in literature, for her great musicians, for her industrial achievements, and chiefest of all for the rich and many sided manhood of the German race. He spoke of the educational debt America owes to Germany for the work of American students in German...
...Peabody Museum has issued a report of the expedition sent out last year, under Mr. Gordon, to investigate and decipher the inscriptions on the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan, Central America. The expedition was absent nine months and succeeded in uncovering all the stairway that still remains in position. There were originally eighty-five steps in the flight, but now only fifteen remain. The work of the expedition consisted principally of replacing the fallen steps in their proper order so that the inscriptions carved on the front of the steps could be deciphered. Mr. Gordon was finally enabled to translate...
...expressions on some present educational, social and religious problems. One who reads this article will gain new understanding of the far-reaching and enduring service to Harvard and the general cause of education which has given President Eliot rank with Horace Mann as one of the two greatest educators America has produced...
...books on philanthropical and sociological subjects, open to all members of the University, will soon be established in the Randall Room of Brooks House by the Social Services Committee. The books chosen will be those recommended by prominent social workers in the leading philanthropical institutions in England and America...