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...Harvard, its aims, its equipment and its needs. The work is suffering, the writer says, from the lack of a building devoted exclusively to the philosophical department--a building in which all the philosophical classes, now scattered through the different recitation halls, and all the classes in psychological research, now cramped in inadequate laboratories in Dane Hall, might be brought together. "Such a home," Professor Munsterberg writes, "would give us first, of course, the room and the external opportunities for work on every plane; it would give us also the dignity and the repose, the unity and comradeship...
...pottery vessel, probably between four and five hundred years old, has just been presented to the Peabody Museum by Clarence B. Moore '73, of Philadelphia, a man prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...
...expedition has been planned for botanical and zoological research in South America this summer. Though managed primarily by private persons, Harvard and the University of Chicago are interested in the enterprise...
...Clark '03 will have general charges of the expedition and will also conduct the zoological research, assisted by A. H. Crosbie '03. Others in the party are J. R. Johnston '03, who will be in charge of the botanical research, and O. O. Miller, Jr., his assistant. The party will sail on the S. S. Caracas from New York on June 15, arriving at La Guayra, Venezuela, June 23. From there they will go to Margarita Island, where the bulk of the collecting will be done...
...small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies in a tour covering a year, examined the whole territory of the Holy Land, and his search resulted in the surprising discovery that in Palestine, which is archaeologically the most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research are being conducted. The surveys of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, though carefully and thoroughly carried out, have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest of it are being destroyed or carried away by business companies...