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Ivan Mestrovic was born in 1883 in Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy...
...Herbert J. Spinden, '06. Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Gregory Mason, writer and explorer, will lead an expedition which will search for records of the ancient Mayas in Yucatan, it was announced last night...
...Gregory Mason, the organizer of this expedition, has made two previous trips of Yucatan and has written many magazine articles and a book on this region. In 1912 and 1913 he did newspaper work for the New York Evening Sun. He was outlook correspondent in the armies of Villa and Carranza in 1914 and two years later in the punitive expedition led by Pershing. Before the World War he undertook political and economic investigations in Yucatan, Mexico, Russia, Asia and the Far East. During the war he was outlook correspondent in the Argonne and Meuse campaigns and later...
...opening of the Yucatan Peninsula to scientific research is due largely to the work carried on by the American chewing gum industry and the United Fruit Company. In the interior the "Chicle Development Company has established several camps and trails which will be used by the Mason-Spinden Expedition. In Northern Honduras where Dr. Spinden hopes to continue his researches of recent years, the United Fruit Company has offered invaluable assistance in the cooperation of its personnel and the use of its planation clearings
Died. Dr. James W. Taylor, 91, "oldest U. S. Mason"; at Luthers-viile...