Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has at last found the promised land. After being forced by the college authorities to remove its scenery, first from the top of Sever and thence to the basement of the Germanie Museum and from there to the street, this much-traveled organization, like the ancient, tribes of Israel, has passed through the wilderness and found its haven of refuge in a barn on Church Street...
...trade route from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was hard on the traveler. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where there is to be found a trace of the western culture left by Alexander and the traders who followed him. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally came out into the Kansu province...
...archaeology there is no branch of knowledge that may be acquired that will not be useful. In the Egyptian field, a knowledge of the ancient languages, Greek and Latin is extremely desirable and Egyptian indispensable. German French, Geology, Botany, Biology, Mathematics, History, Fine Arts, and even Music and Astronomy, I imagine, would be useful. It is not necessary that a man must have a knowledge of the higher branches of these subjects, but he must have enough to recognize the character of the questions which arise and to select the proper research men to be consulted in regard to them...
...defenders of controversial hypotheses will look to the President and Fellows as the only truthful authority to settle their disputes. A committee on the truth of ancient and modern theories will have to be formed. There will spring up in all parts of the world societies for the prevention of slander on Isaac Newton, or Keppler. University Hall will be flooded by letters demanding the truth about the "apple hypothesis of the discovery of gravity" or research on the theory that each star has its little guardian angel pushing it through space. Others will ask for proof that Pythagoras first...
...Factory, 2000 years old, found by Count de Prorok." Utica, the oldest Punic City in North Africa is the scene of the excavations, which disclosed more than a hundred hairpins and almost two dozen buttons. The explorers are working continuously, spurred on by the hope of finding a really ancient hairpin factory. This no doubt would be an achievement and the Count de Prorok could expect nothing less than immortality for his reward, while the faithful members of his little band could hold the folks back home spell-bound with the stirring tale of the adventure...