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Harvard starts its regular season Nov. 26 at Lafayette. D.C. Explor 65 Harvard...
...19th Centuries, the changing frontier provided a healthy outlet for this up-and-going urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot...
...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...
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