Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry on the work of unearthing facts which would throw light on this problem that Professor Spinden and Mr. Mason left on their present expedition...
...Saturday, April 17, the team will play its first match at the Agawan Hunt Club in Providence, R. I. The following Monday it is scheduled to arrive in Sulphur Springs. West Virvinia, where it will spend several days. The University men may enter the Mason-Dixon tournament while they are in Sulphur Springs, and although this has not been definitely decided yet, they are sure to meet some of the players who are entered in the tournament...
Reports from the Mason-Spinden expedition in the Yucatan have recently been received at the Peabody Museum which tell in some detail of the territory which the expedition has covered so far and of the discoveries it has made. Dr. Herbert J. Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum left Cambridge in January with Mr. Gregory Mason to continue the explorations which archaeologists have begun in the jungles of Central America. Splendid stone cities, great temples, and imposing statues have been gradually revealed during the last half century. But as yet the language, customs, and origin of the people...
...their trip into the Yucatan. From Belize they took a smaller ship northward along the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, making excursions into the inland by means of the large rivers which flow out to the sea all along that coast. On one of these side trips Mr. Mason and another member of the party came down with malaria and were forced to return to Belize. The rest of the party went on without them and made a number of valuable discoveries, which are fully described in one of the letters Dr. Spinden sent to one of his colleagues...
Speeches. Before they left town, they laid eyes upon dapper Julian Starkweather Mason, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, heard him earnestly declare that their papers were "far better than college papers of a generation ago, and better than most of the newspapers throughout the country." They learned that it was "a heartening thing for us newspapermen to have such high school publications and students as you, who will come miles to hear practical newspaper people talk." They learned that there are exciting moments in newspaper offices and that, for Editor Mason, "these moments are full of loyalty, service...