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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish elsewhere an announcement concerning the Egyptian Exploration Fund which should be interesting to Harvard men, especially as a member of the class of '81 has been chosen to aid in the explorations. The honor is one which Harvard should feel proud of, and it behooves the University to lend its co-operation in the form of subscriptions to the fund. We trust that the sum of money necessary for the undertaking may soon be collected. The object is a worthy one and opens up a field of honor and usefulness to the American representative, in which we hope...
...following is an extract from a letter by William C. Winslow, vicepresident of the Egypt Exploration Fund of America...
...honor of American scholarship, and to represent our interests in the field as well at home, it is proposed to furnish an American student to aid in the explorations by the Egypt Exploration Fund of England and America. It is also most important to have one of our countrymen who is versed not only in Egyptology and in the recent 'results,' but who is personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection...
...With the hearty co-operation of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard in the purpose above expressed, Mr. Farley B. Goddard, Ph.D., of Harvard, '81, who has written an admirable paper on 'Researches in the Cyrenaica,' conditionally accepts the position. Drs. Poole, Murray and Head, officials both of the Fund and of the British Museum, will afford every facility for a preliminary study at the museum, and Dr. Maspero, vice-president of the Fund for France, will do the same at the Louvre. A few months of such preparatory study will thus qualify the student to begin work with Naville...
...will be held at the Parker House, Monday evening, June 25, at seven o'clock. A book will be placed at Bartlett's and only those who sign before Class Day, June 22, will be admitted. The Class Committee earnestly request that all who have not subscribed to the fund will do so at their earliest convenience. One fifth of all subscriptions must be apid before June 20, or it will be impossible to hold the dinner...