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...recent article in the Alumni Bulletin, Lincoln MacVeagh '12, American Minister at Athens, hailed archaeology as the most blameless of sciences...
...slow, chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...with which she could make the cash payment on a $15,500 house she had in mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...
...Last month, 50 ft. below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might prove to be among the most important in a decade. Dr. Shear planned to ship one of the skeletons, protected by wax, to anthropologists of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History in the hope that its exact...
Among the patronesses are: Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock, Mrs. Merle Fainsed, Mrs. Walter E. Houghton, Mrs. Francis W. MacVeagh, Mrs. Donald H. McLaughlin, Mrs. Perry Miller, Mrs. Theodore Merrison, Mrs. John D. Wild, and Mrs. Benjamin F. Wright...