Word: regions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spread of Harvard's influence and the broadening of Harvard's horizon. The immediate and quite commendable object of the Territorial Clubs is to promote social intercourse and friendship between acquaintances coming from the same locality. But by this very furthering of acquaintance between men from the same general region, they serve at the same time another and more ultimate purpose--namely; as the first step towards the gathering up of all the men of a given city or state after graduation into a local Harvard's Club whose object is the advancement of Harvard's interests. If men from...
Last year the large nations of the world agreed to send a skip to the North Atlantic to patrol the region in which the "Titanic" sank, the district traversed by the chief steamship lines. It is the duty of this boat's crew to watch the icebergs and inform the steamships by wireless of the conditions of the route. England equipped and sent out a vessel last year. This year, the United States is sending the derelict destroyer "Seneca." Each year the other countries share the expenses of the expedition...
After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...lecture will consist of an account of the last expedition and the continuation of the work of previous explorations which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro. Another purpose was to collect ethnological information relative to the aboriginal inhabitants and to explore the forests where these primitive people lived previously untouched by civilization. The valley of the Amazon is the last great unexplored tract of the earth's surface...
Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, will give an illustrated lecture on his recent descoveries in Peru in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The Yale Peruvian Expedition, of which Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring...