Word: five
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...
...first Vesper Service of the new year will be held this evening at five o'clock. The musical programme is as follows: "Great God, to Whom We Bow," by Gounod; "Sing of Mercy," (Lauda Zion), by Mendelssohn; Duet from "Bethlehem," by West...
...meeting of the players held on December 30, the rule relating to the number of years which a player is allowed to compete was changed from five to four years, in order to place the contestants in the chess tournaments under the same eligibility rules as those of other intercollegiate contestants. A resolution was also adopted to ask the Board of Directors to consider the advisability of altering the rules in order that each college should be represented by four men instead of two and that the tournaments should then be played in teams, to be concluded in three days...
...societies for the advancement of higher science met at New Haven on December 27, 28, and 29. Among the five hundred scientists from the United States and Europe who attended, Harvard was well represented and figured most prominently at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. The meeting of the Archaeological Institute was very successful and the subjects discussed covered a very wide range of study, both ancient and modern. The address of Professor C. E. Norton, honorary president, on "The Work of the Institute" was one of the most interesting as well as the soundest and best conceived...