Word: blair-duncan
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...with pleasure at the heart that I read the letters from M. Blair-Duncan concerning the Peruvian University he is so kindly disemboweling for us. I am the solitary Peruvian of the Incas line now attendant at this great modern seat of learning. To feel that Harvard is unearthing the riches of my race's glorious past and is portraying to us now the student life of that distant age makes my eyes water with cheer...
What was the outcome? On this we have no hints from the records, and cannot even make conjectures. The pile of rocks still stands at the foot of the incline, a pathetic witness to the glory that was once the university's. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
Here the document breaks off, evidently having received rough treatment at the hands of the censors. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
...what they term social training, and for naught else. But we cannot be rid of them. If we desire a universal interest in the halls of learning, there must be made an effort to entice the blunter spirits away from the lures of Machu-Picchu". Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
...brought back from the university several pocket-fuls of curious metal disks and tiny images, much in the nature of watch-charms. Senor Alvarotez is at work on defining them, and I hope to have a definite report to give your readers in my next letter. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...