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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...
...meet Brown in the last meet of the season. The meet will be held in the Brown Gymnasium at 8 o'clock. Although the swimming team has been defeated in each of its three contests, the work has been improving steadily. The strength of the Brown team is unknown, but judging from their record last year, the result will be close. Brown defeated the University swimmers last year by the score...
...subject will be "Further Explorations in the Northwest Amazon Basin, 1912-1913." An account of the last expedition and continuation of the work of the previous explorations, which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro, will feature the talk...
...trophy is a large cup given in the spring of 1912 by an unknown donor. It comes into the permanent possession of that person who wins it twice in succession...
...Unknown to a great part of the student body, a force of trained men continually patrols the Yard and its precincts, always on the look-out for that ever-present danger, the dormitory thief. The College has maintained a protective force for many years, but under the re-organized system, which took effect last spring, the number of men has been increased and the service made much superior to its former standard. These men guard especially against the suspicious stranger who enters the Yard with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another...