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...foremost authorities on Maya history, including Dr. S. G. Morley of the Carnegle Institute. Dr. Spinden of Harvard, and the British archaeologists Maudslay and Joyce, are agreed that Maya culture suffered eclipse before the coming of the Spaniards. There was an early collapse in the seventh century A. D., and a later one in the fifteenth century. The most likely causes of these collapses are civil war, exhaustion of the soil, climatic change and the appearance of disease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scientists Invade Yucatan Jungles to Wrest Secrets of Lost Mayan Civilization from Temple Ruins | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

...American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating lady after her return to Menelaus. Then there is "Bring! Bring!" by Conrad Aiken, good short stories with a bad title...

Author: By John Clement, | Title: Is America Imperialistic? --- Outstanding Books of 1925 | 1/16/1926 | See Source »

...miles a second. The significance of the ether-drift calculations in brief is: The man who made them, Dr. Dayton C. Miller of the Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland), President of the American Physical Society, participated in the original ether-drift experiments of Professors Michelson and Morley 20 years ago, upon which Dr. Einstein built his theory of relativity. Dr. Miller's new figures are the most complete and accurate yet made and tend to alter, if not to disprove, Dr. Einstein's propositions. Also, establishment of the existence of ether is fundamentally important to scientific knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Kansas City | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...smoke of candles is still blowing off birthday cake, the children are being taken home and Martin is spared the full knowledge of what he is growing up to. And grown-up Mr. Morley in his own wistful type of fantasy has played the theme of lost childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orchids and Ash-Cans | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...program follows: Dainty, Fine Sweet Nymph Morley Galway Piper Irish Folk Song Harvard Glee Club Princeton Instrumental Club Selections Officer of the Day March Sousa Football Songs Harvard Banjo Club Princeton Glee club Kammenoi-Ostrow Polla My Sweetic Turned Me Down Green Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandelin Club Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Football Songs Harvard Glee Club Old Nassan Princeton Glee Club. Fair Harvard Harvard Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUBS UNITE WITH PRINCETON IN JOINT CONCERT | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

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