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...burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady chicha. Soon Harvard's Peabody Museum heard of the curiously wrought gold ornaments on sale in a Panama City antique shop. The result was the Lothrop expedition. In one grave alone, containing a score of skeletons laid out on stone slabs, the Harvard diggers found more than 2,000 objects. In gold there were pendants studded with semiprecious stones, bead necklaces, cuffs...
...artist Sean O'Faolain has the good fortune to be obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize...
...last year of Mr. Lowell's wise leadership. It is unnecessary for me to enumerate the many accomplishments of his administration. Almost twenty thousand men have graduated from Harvard College during the presidency of Mr. Lowell, and these alumni can testify to the marvelous change he wrought in the attitude of the undergraduates towards scholarship. This he accomplished by the modification of the elective system, the introduction of the tutorial system, the establishment of the Freshman dormitories, and finally by the inauguration of the House Plan. The whole University has felt the dominating personality of the President and rejoiced...
...Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with no intention of ever importing a drop. These...
...capitalistic government of the Fascist type. These groups were going around in a circle, and were sure to meet; a meeting that would result in a combination of the extreme Left and the extreme Right, forming state control of industry. Why, even the Conservatives had become so wrought up that their representatives in Congress were demanding a Mussolini; an American dictator. The new administration has taken a course that leads directly away from this circle. The theory of this new course is that the machinery of self government should proceed from the citizen's own industrial life, assisted...