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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The prehistoric Indians of the central Mississippi Valley had forestalled the modern chemist in making and using evaporating pans and precipitating jars which they employed in the manufacture of salt. These utensils were of pottery. The shallow pans were two to four feet in diameter. The precipitating jars were about...

Author: By Charles CLARK Willoughby, | Title: DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES SHOWN BY PEABODY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS | 5/5/1922 | See Source »

Current French literature is facing an extraordinary problem, according to latest reports. Literally, it is sinking under the weight of its own decorations. Almost as many prizes are being awarded annually for the "book of the year", as there are books published. Bookstains in Montmartre are lost in a maze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRICE OF PRIZES | 5/5/1922 | See Source »

"The ship is to the sea--which covers 73 per cent of the earth's surface--what the steamboat is to canal and river, the truck and automobile to the highways. It is the means of transporting freight and passengers from place to place; and just as Americans own and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POINTS OUT GREAT NEED FOR MERCHANT MARINE | 4/8/1922 | See Source »

The report of the Chapel Committee covers the period from July 5, 1921 to March 29, 1922. The subject will be taken up under the heads of Summer School, Morning Chapel and Sunday Services, and Special Services.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPEL COMMITTEE | 4/6/1922 | See Source »

It must be with reverence that one opens the covers of the volumes of the Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany as, carefully gathered and tenderly compiled by M. A. De Wolfe Howe '88, they appear from time to time. There can be no question here...

Author: By J. W. D. seymour, | Title: NEW VOLUME OF HARVARD WAR MEMOIRS | 3/10/1922 | See Source »

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