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Dartmouth college is considering the proposition to erect a bronze statue in honor of her late Prof. Phelps...
Harvard men will read with pleasure a paper in the Atlantic Monthly by Prof. Shaler on "The Border State Men of the Civil War." Prof. Shaler is himself a Kentuckian, as all college men know, and therefore he is eminently fitted to give excellent final testimony on such a subject. What Prof. Shaler says on the considerations which finally influenced him to cast his lot for the North is particularly interesting...
Under the direct charge of Prof. F. W. Putnam as curator of the Peabody Museum and, and chief of the department of Archaeology and Ethnology for the World's Columbian Exposition, more work relating to American Archaeology and Ethnology is being carried on at the present time than ever before. One of the most important expeditions is that sent recently by the Museum to Honduras to investigate the ancient ruins within the borders of that republic. The government of Honduras has given these ruins into the charge of the Peabody Museum for ten years with the exclusive right of exploration...
Professor J. K. Paine has been engaged to write the instrumental music for the Dedicatory Exercises at the opening of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This recognition of Prof. Paine's genius and ability is not only a great compliment to him but is a matter of congratulation to the whole college. The music is to be played by an orchestra of a hundred and fifty pieces under the leadership of Mr. Thomas...
...little more than a year ago, the second expedition from Harvard was sent to make astronomical observations in South America. The first was under the direction of Mr. S. I. Bailey and was very successful. Prof. William H. Pickering was in charge of the second and, with a number of assistants, he left Cambridge in December, 1890. A site about three-miles northwest of Arequipa in Peru was selected and a station established. It is over 8000 feet above the sea level and is especially fortunate in the remarkable steadiness of the air and the clearness...