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...leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. 8.30. Hotel "Griswold" sails. (Water cure discovered useless for sea-sickness). Rest of the day: Bathing, lunch, baseball game, and track sports (relay race between Class Odor and Class Poet). 5.00 P. M., or thereabouts: Homeward bound. Half of Class sees a sea-serpent. Other half sees two. On landing, meeting is adjourned to hear Harvard Night at the Pops. (NO Silent Knight either, believe...
...African Dodger will resound with the lusty spheroids, and the Fat Lady will draw in a long breath. A continuous amateur pie-eating contest will provide many opportunities for skill and capacity, and there will be other games where magnificent prizes reward the successful. The great Siberian Sea-Serpent vies with the Tattooed Albino, and the Empire City Quartet with Signor Caruso and the Black Hand Chorus. Seniors are asked to come in costume if possible. Tickets at 25 cents may be obtained at the Co-operative branch. Leavitt & Peirce's, the Union, and from members of the committee...
...skeletons and implements of prehistoric ages were found. Battle-axes, bracelets, knives, the things which were most valued during life, all these were placed by their side when they were buried; on one altar as many as sixty thousand beads were found. Of especial interest are the pictures of serpents, which throw great light upon the serpent worship of the early peoples...
...Prince Maximillian from the region of the City of Mexico and the State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the rarity of the specimens which it includes. These represent gods, masks, and a number of single specimens, as a ceremonial axe, coiled serpent and carved vessel. These are carved from stone and from lava, and in some cases show evidences of an original covering of stucco...
...great Serpent Mound of Ohio, which has long been a subject of study and research for American archaeologists, has been given by the Corporation to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. The mound has been in the possession of the Peabody Museum ever since 1886, when it was purchased by private subscriptions amounting to $6,000, chiefly from citizens of Boston. The understanding was that the Museum should take charge of the mound until some local society should be able to receive it. Of late years there has been great difficulty in taking proper care of the Serpent Mound...