Word: african
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Curators from September 1, 1914.--Alfred Marston Tozzer '00, Ph.D. (Middle American Archaeology and Ethnology); Oric Bates '05, A.B. (African Archaeology and Ethnology): Earnest Albert Hooton, Ph.D., B.Litt. (Somatology): Alfred Vincent Kidder. Ph.D. (North American Archaeology). Samuel James Guernsey. Assistant Curator of Archaeology and Ethnology from September 1, 1914. Richard Francis Carroll, Assistant Secretary at the Peabody Museum, from September...
...April 30 and May 22. On April 30 will occur the great Country Fair in the baseball cage, the arrangements for which have been railroaded through the censorship of the authorities with only a few minor changes. Among the features fit for publication will be the renowned African dodger and the Sacred Pig of Siam, greased to the eyes...
...African man performs any sort of manual labor which is considered degrading, but the women are the toilers. Standing in a community is measured by the number of wives which a man has. An ordinary person has about five, while the more influential members possess about thirty. Mr. Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only...
Perhaps the most interesting works already published are the "Harvard Historical Studies." These essays comprise twenty volumes by different authors and vary in subject matter from "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America" and "The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Line of Suleiman the Magnificent" to "Nominations for Elective Office in the United States" and "Burgage Tenure in England...
...humorous. Then the class will drift to the Dining Room, where it will find refreshments and "music as she is played by Kanrich." When satiated, the class, on returning to the Living Room, will find all kinds of novelties and games waiting, not least of which is an African Dodger. Thus the greatest attractions of the Senior and Freshman festivals which have been so successful are combined. See the posters and bring cash...