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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California, Ethnologist J. P. Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution sought to aid archeological Americana by questioning old, feeble Indians possessed of knowledge of their race's ancient settlements. One Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city was named Cerro Colorado. Not many miles away is the ancient Cabeza Larga, a city preceding the Nascan culture, which preceded the establishment of the Inca empire (circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Hatrack," or "Fanny Fewclothes," is described as a prostitute who went to the "Northern Methodist Church" of Farmington repeatedly, but was so rebuffed by the whole congregation that she always returned to her ancient trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hatrack | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

History is both broadening and broad. There are in the Department no less than 17 separate fields varying from Ancient History and the History of the Renaissance and the Reformation, to History of International Relations since 1500, and the History of Intellectual and Religious liberty. In the range of these a wide variety of related courses is accepted for concentration so that the department is adapted to men of greatly differing tastes. In this connection it is pertinent to scotch the myth that is every man's inheritance from secondary school that American history is a sterile and desolate waste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN RECEIVE FINAL TIPS FROM UPPER CLASSMEN ON THE VARIOUS FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION OFFERED BY THE FACULTY | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

Philosophy is studied systematically and historically. In the first case it is divided into metaphysics, ethics and logics. Metaphysics is devoted to an examination of the essential nature of reality. It has a history extending far back into Greece, and farther into ancient India, where people first began to wonder what the panorama of Nature with all its manifestations might mean, and what might be man's place in the cosmical scheme. The problem of orienting oneself in regard to the totality of Nature is an important one. Metaphysics by itself is dealt with by Prof. Hocking in Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN RECEIVE FINAL TIPS FROM UPPER CLASSMEN ON THE VARIOUS FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION OFFERED BY THE FACULTY | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

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