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Farther to the east, Dr. Gordon T. Bowles and his wife have secured anthropometric data on five thousand individuals in the Indian foothill area. The particular purpose of this survey was to analyze racial origins and migrations along the significant borderland of India and Tibet, the investigation extending from the extreme northwest to Assam and Burma...
...excavation of the ruin of Awatovi in Arizona, John O. Brew discovered important clues to the history of the Hopi Indians. A program of excavation in this area has been mapped which it is hoped will present a connected history of southwestern life from the early centuries to the burning of Awatovi...
...advise that the bamboo shoots not only started coming up. but that within a year or so the whole neighborhood was endangered by this very prolific plant. So bad did it begin to spread that we had to devise a very elaborate system of trenches around the area to keep it in bounds. Even that is not 100% efficient, and it just struck me if we could get ahold of that panda thing our problem might be solved...
Through the Social Service Committee the Phillips Brooks House does its most constructive work outside the University. Through it are furnished over 150 graduates and undergraduates to do personnel work for charity organizations, clinics, and the twenty settlement houses of the Greater Boston area...
While in Georgia, serious Mr. Scattergood got to pondering the spectacle of water power running to waste in a State which was economically top-heavy with agriculture. In the Los Angeles of 1901 he found an ideal spot to check his answer: an area planned and integrated "by the application of engineering knowledge to develop the community for the ultimate good of humanity...