Word: ang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items also went further afield, from archaic Greek vases to a surrealist canvas of a horse's head, surrounded by lilies and starfish. Best part of the show was its sculpture, which ranged from prancing pottery chargers of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty through the Renaissance bronzes of Giovanni da Bologna to contemporary U. S. Ceramist Waylande de Santis Gregory...
...Harvard seal is the usual coat of arms, containing the word "Veritas," encircled by the Latin engraving, "Sigilum Academiae Harvardianae in Nov: Ang:". The coat of arms without the inscription is perfectly correct for stationery, but with the inscription it should only be used by the University...
...Chinese the art of music is distinctly old stuff. In 2600 B. C., when the skin-clad savages of Europe were tootling shinbone flutes and walloping tomtoms, China's cultured Emperor Huang-ti established a standard scale for all China's musical instruments. When the T'ang Dynasty passed out in 907 A. D., Chinese music declined somewhat. But cultivated Chinese have always regarded music as one of China's most important arts...
Some readers may recognize Lin Yü-t'ang (My Country and My People}, but Lu Hsün, "China's Chekhov," and Mao Tun, "perhaps the outstanding novelist of China today," will be new acquaintances...
This circular, prepared by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Professor of History, and Pierre Dec. 1a Rose '95, states, "the Seal is a circular disc with the inscription "Sigillum Academiae Harvardinae in Nov: Ang: ' round its edge with the Coat-of-Arms of the University as its central ornament...