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...year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City...
...Louis 14 seven-passenger automobiles took the Presidential party from the train. Mayor Kiel presented the first lady of the land with a bouquet of orchids, natives of seven tropical countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ceylon, Mexico, China, India, Guatemala. All of them had been grown in the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the afternoon the President spoke to a convention of Rotarians and in the evening addressed an audience of 12,000 on the World Court...
Nearly equal in importance with the Egyptian discoveries are the new findings in Yucatan. The civilization of the Maya race, covering at various times a large part of the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, Salvador and northern Honduras, has been known for over half a century by archaeologists to have reached the highest level of culture of any of the ancient peoples of the New World. It is thought to have begun about the first century before Christ, reaching its zenith from 400-600 A. D., and to have flourished at intervals until about 1400 A. D. The Spaniards found these sites...
...result of an eight weeks competition which ended last night, William Ichabod Nichols of Wilton, Conn., was appointed manager of the Freshman track team. Stanley de Jongh Osborne of Guatemala City, Guatemala, and George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury were appointed first assistant and second assistant managers respectively. Nichols, who will manage the team in the Spring, will make the trip to the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet in New York on Saturday...
Stanley deJongh Osborne of Guatemala City, Guatemala...