Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...valuable collection of ethnological specimens has recently been received by the University of Pennsylvania Museum from Dr. William G. Farabee, who is at the head of the university's Amazon expedition. The specimens were collected in the southern part of British Gulana among the Carib and Arowak Indians and other hitherto unknown tribes. They include clothing for men and women, made from the feathers of the Macan and other birds of rich plumage, paintings of religious ceremonials on sticks, bead work, bows, and arrows, spears, hammocks and domestic utensils. None of them, according to archaeoligists at the university, show...
...Faculty has granted permission to the Musical Clubs for a western trip to be taken during the Christmas recess. The present plan is for the clubs to take an alternate western and southern trip, every other year, thus visiting the same section every fourth year. This year's trip will be the first since the southern trip...
...second assistant manager of lacrosse reported at the first call, the time has been extended to Wednesday, October 7. Men from 1917 who intend to enter the competition must report in Matthews 22 that night at 7.30. The competition is not hard and the team takes a spring southern trip, equal to that taken by the baseball team, making this managership a very desirable...
...elective courses of importance to students interested in Latin America are to be offered during the second half-year by the Department of History. In taking this step the University becomes the first school in the country to give comprehensive instruction on the economic condition of our southern neighbors, and on the possibilities for new trade with South America as a result of the present war in Europe. These courses have been made possible by the generous endowment for instruction in this field which was made past spring by an ananymous donor...
...basement of the Smith Halls, on the southern side, is the immense kitchen for all the dormitories, with its capacious ovens, its steamers and caldron-like soup kettles...