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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maya civilization flourished in Central America before the coming of the Spaniard and their subsequent conquest of the country. It dates from the birth of Christ to the middle of the sixteenth century. The Carnegie Institution of Washington has chosen two fields of research, the first at Uaxactun in northern central Guatemala and the second at Chicen Itza in north-eastern Yucatan, Mexico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2000 YEAR OLD PYRAMID EXHUMED IN UAXACTUN | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...article, implies the abolition of an integrated study in one field. Although provision is to be made for specialization during the last two years, it is not, on the one hand obligatory; and on the other. It may be carried so far as to exclude any courses outside the chosen field of the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL COLUMBIA IN THREE PARTS | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries looked back to the immediately preceding centuries--especially the fourth, fifth, and sixth--as to the epoch of the Founders of their civilization. Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic; St. Jerome, the Humanist; Boethius, the first of the Scholastics; and St. Augustine as a precursor, in some respects, of Dante. He also treats of the New Poetry of Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Important New Fall Books | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Alfred Claghorn Potter '89 of Cambridge has been chosen to succeed W. C. Lane '81, who is retiring as Librarian of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POTTER APPOINTED TO OFFICE OF LIBRARIAN | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

FRANCOIS VILLON, A Documented Survey- D. B. Wyndham Lewis-Coward-McCann, Edwin V. Mitchell ($5.00). Chosen by the Literary Guild for September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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