Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading knowledge of one language. That would, perhaps, be an improvement over the present system, but every college graduate, except possibly the concentrators in science, should have a useful reading knowledge of two languages. But there is doubtful logic in restricting that knowledge to a modern and an ancient language. Instead a plan whereby Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, and Spanish would be placed on a parity and each student would be required to have a reading knowledge of any two of them appears wiser and more logical. A reading knowledge of one language can be obtained in any reputable...
...Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor...
...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...
...about 30 years ago. Unlike other rich men he employed no dealers, hired no experts, did all his own buying in Paris or London. He likes to show his treasures to strangers. At meetings of collectors' clubs, he often appears lugging in his thin white fingers an ancient dilapidated Gladstone bag. From it he plucks forth odd trinkets worth anywhere up to $50,000 apiece. There never was a burglary at his Chelsea home, nor did the old gentleman ever fear one. All of his pieces are too well known to experts to be of any value...
...graduate of Wellesley for 50 years, Wellesley's president for 25. In June 1936, she informed her Board of Directors last week, she will also become president emeritus. Wellesley girls of today know "Pres-Penn" as a handsome white-haired lady who glides about town & campus in an ancient electric automobile. To alumnae she is the doughty money-getter who buried the ashes of the College Fire of 1914 beneath tons & tons of Collegiate-Gothic building stone...