Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's grand, grey Metropolitan Museum used to amuse expatriate Henry James as the "so aspiring" museum of his native city. Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century. Lately the Metropolitan has turned to art at home, and since 1934 has actually bought 73 contemporary U. S. paintings. Last week, with positive enthusiasm, it performed another service...
...Purple and White of Amherst College replaces 1939 opener Bates, bringing the challenge of the Little Three conference to Harvard, ancient Big Three standard-bearer. On Nov. 5 Varsity football schedule for the 1940 the Harlowmen wind up their two game series with the University of Pennsylvania. The first of these contests is to be played at Cambridge this fall, and other at Philadelphia...
...other new Fellows and their fields are: Lawrence H. Aller, California '36, A.M. '38, of Oakland, California, astrophysics; Donald R. Hamilton, Princeton '35, of Flushing, New York, physics; Donald B. King, Dartmouth '35, of Unionville, Connecticut, ancient history; Lynn H. Loomis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '37, of Ossining, New York, mathematics; and George S. Vickers, A. B. McMaster, of St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, fine arts...
Five thousand years ago the Sumerian rulers of Mesopotamia were buried, in big underground chambers, with multitudes of sacrificed servants. The skull and face forms of these old Near Easterners are almost identical with those of living Englishmen. Ancient Egyptian skulls resemble those in 17th-Century London plague pits, in New Stone Age box graves of Switzerland. Science has had much to puzzle over in these resemblances, and many others in the intricately shuffled complex of races, sub-races, types and varieties in Europe's white population...
...mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...