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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American Philological Association will hold its annual meeting in Cambridge this year, on July 9, 10 and 11 in the Fogg Art Museum. The time will be spent in the reading of papers, the programme for which will published about the middle of June. This Association was founded in 1869, and its membership consists mainly of college professors of Greek and Latin. The president of the Association is Professor S. B. Platner, of Western Reserve College, and the secretary Professor H. W. Smyth, of Bryn Mawr College, who recently has been called to a Professorship in Greek at Harvard. Many...
...Lake Superior copper and iron mining regions. It will count as a course and will be known as Mining 12. The purpose of the trip is to give the students an insight into practical mining operations, which cannot be obtained in a laboratory. The time will be spent in a careful observation of mining, and on their return the students taking the course will be required to write a report showing the results of their study. A number of the students will supplement this work by photographs. Last year a similar trip was made to the coal and iron regions...
...William C. Lane, Librarian of the Gore Hall Library, will return to Cambridge next week after four months abroad. Mr. Lane spent most of his time in Egypt and Sicily, travelling merely for his own pleasure...
...well known naturalist of Switzerland, whose voice is often heard in German magazines, came here for scientific purposes and spent his vacation in various places. When he returned, he gathered his impressions in an essay published in the most widely read review, and condensed his opinions on American universities as follows: 'The American universities are of unequal value; some are simply humbug. They are all typically American, illustrating in every respect the American spirit: they have an essentially practical purpose. The American wishes to see quick returns in facts and successes; he has scarcely ever any comprehension of theory...
...which is to preserve. "Harewood," a house three miles from Charlestown, W. Va., built by General Washington in 1752-56 and occupied by his brother, Colonel Samuel Washington, from 1756 to 1781. James and Dolly Madison were married in that house, and there King Louis Philippe of France spent his exile...