Word: antiquarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor of his class college newspaper, Hall was associated with the University Press from 1945 to 1947. He is now vice-president of the New England Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association...
...cast end of London, and met some of England's future Labor Party leaders. But aside from any personal experiences, Owen likes history "because it combines so many different elements." He has a taste for the historically unusual and bizarre, and his interests are considerably more lively than the antiquarian's. Owen's lecture, "On Behalf of Scrooge," delivered two years ago at the Signet Society, and recently published in the Alumni Bulletin, is an illustration not only of his good-humored sarcasm, but also of the strange uses to which he occasionally puts history. Castigating the commercialism of Christmas...
...Peabody Museum is more than a mere repository for everything from African fertility symbols to embalmed chimpanzees. The display cases which line its walls are only the outward aspect of the Museum's role in the University and in the study of anthropology. The Museum is far loss purely antiquarian and far more complex than it-may appear to most of its casual Sunday visitors. Like the figurative iceberg, mot of Peabody lies below the surface...
...hope that the Reds-in-Government issue will disappear next year. But there seems little chance that the hope will be realized. The intense interest in the last three weeks of debate on the White case shows how alive the issue is. The debate was obviously not an antiquarian exercise-not a mere digging up of the past. It disclosed sharp present differences between the attitudes of Democratic and Republican leaders on how to deal with Communist subversion...
...professor said he doesn't believe for a moment that Charles Dawson, the attorney and amateur antiquarian who discovered the skull, is the perpetrator of the hoax. "I'm only guessing." he said, "but I think the joker was one of the technicians in the British Museum who had an ambition to fool the experts...