Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing as he is instructive. Next Friday he will continue his plea for the return of this charming music to the position which it lost to the sentimental hymns of the last century...
...Liang Ssu-Ch'eng, distinguished Chinese architect and archaeologist, and Professor Josef Albers, of Black Mountain College, will be visiting lecturers next year at the Department of Architecture...
Favorite designer of many U. S. dress buyers is Elsa Schiaparelli, daughter of an Italian archaeologist, niece of an Italian astronomer, whose passion for curious buttons, hooks, clamps, clips and other fastenings has had a more direct influence on women's clothes than that of any other modern designer...
...Despite the high rhetoric of the verse, and the crisp, business-like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which one may be disposed to doubt. The chief character is Michael Ransom, a young archaeologist, who is hired by the British Government to explore the peak of a mountain called F6 by the geographers. Ostensibly the reason is the advancement of archaeology, but we are shown, not so clearly as might have been that the reason is imperialist. Empire is to advance, a tribal nation...
...this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...