Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University is considering the advisability of installing a system of telephones between the different departments, with a central office at University Hall, to be connected with the Cambridge central office and at least six other trunk line in Boston. A telephone will be put in the new lodge on Massachusetts avenue. The New England Telephone Company will probably be given permission to install long distance telephones in some of the College dormitories this spring. The usual charge will be made for the use of them...
...year has been an active one for the Museum. The most valuable part of its work has been the Archaeological researches which have been conducted in various parts of America. The most important of these researches have been made possible by the "Fund for the Encouragement of Mexican and Central American Research." This fund, maintained by yearly contributions, has enabled the Museum to carry on researches in Yucatan and Mexico for twelve years, and last year by means of it the Museum continued the work of several explorers. Mr. Gordon conducted researches in Guatemala, and made a valuable collection illustrating...
...addition to these expeditions the fund has furnished the means for publishing a series of quarto memoirs, thus making known some of the important results of the several expeditions. The latest of these memoirs has just been issued under the title "Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley," by Mr. Teobert Maler. This work gives a full and interesting description of Mr. Maler's work for the past year, including his visit to the little-known Lacandon Indians of Lake Petha...
Several researches have been conducted aside from those in Central America. Dr. Charles Peabody explored some large mounds in Mississippi and made a large collection of stone implements, pottery, and other objects. Professor Putnam continued his researches in California in relation to the antiquity of man and collected a number of archaeological specimens. Other minor researches have also been made...
...Affiliated Societies, from Monday, December 30, to Thursday, January 2, inclusive. They are the American Society of Naturalists, the American Morphology Society, the Association of American Anatomists, the American Physiological Society, the American Psychological Society, the Western Philosophical Society, the Society of American Bacteriologists, the Botanists of the Central and Western States, and the American Folk Lore Society. Ten or twelve Harvard representatives will probably attend, and among them Professor Josiah Royce, President of the American Psychological Society, who will deliver the presidential address on "The Relations between Psychology and Logic...