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Latin America. The Carnegie Institute has received a five-year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City...
...years expeditions headed by Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, distinguished anthropologist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, of Harvard, have been exploring the little-known ruins. Now a well-organized group of scientists and engineers, including Dr. Morley, John F. Barry, William Barclay Parsons, Dr. Marshall H. Saville of Columbia and Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution, is surveying the field preliminary to a more exhaustive explor ation. Restoration and preservation of the astonishing Mayan architecture is the prime task in view...
Unlike Penrod, William Sylvanus Baxter, or Ramsay Milholland, the main character of the story, has passed the more difficult period of youth and has reached the age where real romance may be his. Clarence is a discharged soldier hero, who in the course of four amusing acts falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet...
...Sylvanus Griswold Morley...
...statue in honor of General Sylvanus Thayer was unveiled at West Point yesterday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies...