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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Farabee '00, instructor in Anthropology, will next fall be in charge of a small party, composed of L. J. de Milhau '06, J. W. Hastings 2G., and some third person not yet definitely chosen, to carry on research work about the head-waters of the Amazon. In October the party will leave for Arequipa, Peru, where temporary headquarters will be established. The work, which will probably take three years, will consist chiefly in studying the manners and customs of the native tribes, and in gathering ethnological material for the Department of Anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropological Research Work | 5/31/1906 | See Source »

...last meeting of the Esperanto Society for this year was held in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. Owing to the small number of competitors, it was decided not to award the Ostwald prizes for an essay and a speech in Esperanto until next fall, and the time for closing the competition was extended to that time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esperanto Competition Postponed | 5/23/1906 | See Source »

...Small tables will be placed in the room and light refreshments will be served throughout the evening at regular prices. The Pierian Sodality Orchestra will render the following program: March, "Twenty-second Regiment" Waltz, "Les Patineurs" Gavotte, "Stephanie" Selection, "Mademoiselle Modiste" Overture, "Pique Dame" Waltz, "Grubenlichter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP NIGHT IN UNION | 5/22/1906 | See Source »

...United States was not affected until by the Revolution it lost the protection of the British navy. Treaties and tribute proved vain, and in 1800 we commissioned our first frigate to fight the corsairs, and not long afterwards three more, in cluding the "Philadelphia." Enticed by a small boat of the enemy, the "Philadelphia" ran on a reef. Captain Bainbridge dismantled it, as harbor craft swarming with armed men compelled surrender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Furlong's Lecture Last Night | 5/16/1906 | See Source »

...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Furlong's Lecture Last Night | 5/16/1906 | See Source »

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