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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, will give an illustrated lecture on his recent descoveries in Peru in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The Yale Peruvian Expedition, of which Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring...
...Graduate School of Medicine has recently adopted a plan which gives good promise of increasing the usefulness of the School to local practising physicians. It has hitherto been possible for regular students of the Medical School to purchase coupons to be used for admission to separate lectures and clinics enabling them "to exercise a wider choice and to secure greater elasticity in their plans for study." Now this opportunity is extended to graduates of recognized medical schools. One of the coupons may be applied to subscribing for the "Monthly Announcement of the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine," a publication which...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine for December opens with a critique of the "Letters of Charles Eliot Norton," saying, in part, "The editors of these volumes are to be congratulated on having performed their task so well that they have produced the most important memorial hitherto raised to any man of letters. . . . Only Ticknor's Journal can compete with it in variety of interest...
...Wolf, physical director in Watertown high school, has been engaged to coach the University gymnasium team during the coming season. There is the first year that the team has the services of a professional instructor, having hitherto relied chiefly on voluntary graduate coaching. Mr. Wolf will be in the Gymnasium on Monday evenings and on Thursday and Friday afternoon from now on to give instruction to the candidates for the team...
...walls leaked. To remedy the evils, the roof has been raised a considerable distance, increasing the exhibition space, and greatly improving the ventilation of the second floor. The capacity of the photograph room has been enlarged and new cases with a more economical arrangement have been installed. Space which hitherto has gone to waste will be utilized as workrooms, store-rooms and quarters for the staff in consequence of the enlargement, greatly increasing the efficiency of administration...