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...Mayar were a true branch of the American Indian race, virtually or entirely uninfluenced by contact with Asia or any other part of the Old World. The earliest of their dates carved in stone which has yet been found corresponds to 98 B. C. in our calendar. Harvard University recently announced Dr. Spinden's discovery that the beginnings of the annual calendar and the Venus calendar of the Mayas must be carried back to dates between...
Disarmament. Pursuant to a resolution passed by the Assembly of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 5), the Council proceeded to take cognizance of the work of the subcommittees which have been preparing the earliest groundwork for a League Disarmament Conference, and began to deliberate upon what further preliminary steps should be taken...
...production is the first one of German origin that has been presented. Last year the play was translated from an old French manuscript, and the year before an ancient English version was given, dating from the thirteenth century. This play is really a Christmas mystery play, one of the earliest types of drama. A miracle play is properly a drama dealing with the career of some saint...
...lucky for the country that the earliest colleges to develop football were the ones that did it. For it is plain to even those who neither run nor read that though Harvard is now rather inconspicuous as a football institution, it has not stepped down from its throne as the great mother of American education...
...Randolph Coolidge, 97, last of the great-grandsons of Thomas Jefferson, in Boston. He was the oldest Harvard alumnus, a Law School classmate ('54) of the late Joseph H. Choate. He prepared himself for a civil engineer, but undermined his health by work on some of the earliest railroads of Virginia. After studying law, he was unable to practice on account of deafness. His later days were spent in the study of international affairs. His surviving sons are Archibald Gary Coolidge, famed Harvard Professor and Editor of Foreign Affairs; J. Randolph Coolidge Jr., able architect; John Gardner Coolidge, distinguished...