Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...maintained that the college of the City of Mexico is the oldest in America. It was founded fifty years before Harvard...
...Mexico...
...Edward Howland, who died last Christmas Day, was one of the principal promoters of the American Colony at Topolobampo in Sinaloa, Mexico. He belonged to a prominent New York family and was a graduate of Harvard in 1853. Mr. Howland's tastes were literary; he was one of the editors of the Saturday Press, and often contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine...
...museum take in its welfare. Mr. Charles P. Bowditch, who traveled recently in Mezico, has obtained a collection there which has great value in trowing light on Mexican archaeology. Another valuable Mexican collection has been formed from numerous objects of interest which Mrs. Warren purchased during her travels in Mexico. Through the generosity of Mr. Stephen Salisbury the museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts of the building will be taken from moulds made by Mr. Edward Thompson. The casts are valuable as showing the strange workmanship in the old stone carvings...
...among the Indians, and which have already been mentioned. Various other articles of archaeological and ethnological interest have been given to the museum, among the most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...