Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Manufacturer John Woodman Higgins of Worcester, Mass, has one thing in common with Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section...
...Eric Thompson of Central & South American Archeology brandishing a cluster of knotted strings. Few of the world's museums have even one quipu, and probably none has more than two. A quipu is a long cord, made of plant fibre, to which are tied other cords. The ancient inhabitants of Peru used them to count population, military reinforcements, llama flocks. Knots in the dependent cords represent units of 100, 10 and 1, depending on position. "An expedition might spend months working in Peru," exulted Director Simms, "without finding a trace...
...monsters as the Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts or Music can hardly be justified without recourse to emotionalism. More serious than this perversion is the fact that the true student of science is not distinguished from his brother whose only claim to that name is his ignorance of ancient languages...
...there are rumors of a grim resurgence among the ranks of House and Dormitory domestics. No longer will they tolerate the opprobrious name which swept into acceptance at Harvard in the slackening of standards of the Post War period. They demand their ancient and honorable title of "goody." As spokesman for their cause a goody of Kirkland House has come forward, deposed, and stated it as her irrevocable opinion that "biddy" is not a maidservant, but a fowl. "We might have been chickens once," she said, "but we want to be called "goodies...
...there any reason that a course in the Russian novel should be less valuable for this purpose than one in the English novel? Are the Classics to be excluded completely as a broadening, literary influence for all those who do not know the ancient languages? As a broad cultural background, certainly there are many fields in translation which, especially to those whose interests tend there, will be far more enjoyable than the present alternative for most,--a course in English literature, or an elementary literary course in either French or German...