Word: asia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Mohammedanism was still another factor responsible for the rupture of the Mediterranean empire. The people of Asia hated emperors who were always trying to maintain the balance between the Orient and the Occident; they hated Christianity because they had a horror of the metaphysical Trinity as being an inhuman conception...
...well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
...Dean of the Scientific School, sailed from Boston on January 2, for Egypt, where he will remain until about March 1. He will go up the Nile to Khartoum, and perhaps, if the conditions are favorable, will take some caravan trip. He will then travel in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and the north coast of Africa, probably returning to America before Commencement. He is accompanied by Mrs. Shaler...
Professor C. S. Sargent '62, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will return next Saturday from an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia. The itinerary of the trip, as planned by Professor Sargent last May, included Holland, France and Germany, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the route. Java and Hong Kong were visited and the return was via San Francisco...
...Lecture Room this evening, at 8 o'clock, Professor W. M. Davis will give an illustrated lecture on "A Summer in Turkestan." Professor Davis's journey, which was made during the past summer, was undertaken on the invitation of M. Raphael Pumpelay, who was conducting an exploration in Western Asia for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the object of studying the relation of the geographical features of the region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School...