Word: misses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Captain Swift" was given at the Tremont Theatre last night by the Madison Square Company. Maurice Barry more in the title role and Agnes Booth in the dramatic part of Miss Seabrook live up to the high reputation they have acquired. The company will give "Jim the Penman" the last three nights of the week, which will also be their last appearance in Boston this year...
...Miss Marie Tempest continues her success this week at the Globe Theatre in "Dorothy." The Duff Opera Company gives a very pleasing rendering of the popular opera, but Miss Tempest leads the troupe by far. This is the last week of the company's stay...
Besides these collections are the trophies which Miss Fletcher got 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...
...most valuable workers for the museum is Miss Alice C. Fletcher. She has been devoting herself to the study and improvement of the Indian race in America. Her long visits to the to the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Sioux and Nez Perce Iddians have given Miss Fletcher a deep insight into the character of the Indian race, and have enabled her to obtain for the museum trophies and relics from the different tribes which before have probably never been seen by the eyes of any other race. Among these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps...
...Miss Fletcher's efforts have not been unappreciated. As was announced in a recent DAILY CRIMSON, a recent gift to the museum of $30,000 for the foundation of a fellowship has been presented by Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw who has specified that the first holder of the fellowship shall be Miss Fletcher; and that she shall retain it as long as she lives and carries on her work among the Indians. This establishes for the first time in Harvard University a fellowship for a woman. The fellowship is also to go to Miss Fletcher's successor, to be used...