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...write a comprehensive history of the style," the noted archaeologist continued. "It is necessary to know exactly what the church was like, which it is impossible to obtain from the few existing charts describing the monastery. The only possible way to achieve this knowledge is by excavating the remains, and with the aid of available chairs, to reconstruct the buildings on paper. Moreover, the role of this church was considerable in the history of the tenth and eleventh centuries, having contributed many famous churchmen and having played an important part in the reformation of the Catholic Church, during the last...
Yesterday, the Vagabond was about to retire to some lonely spot in Somerville and cast his vote for the Grand Old Party, to which by nature and heredity he is naturally affiliated, when Professor Lake broke his nerve and his enthusiasm. In one brief digression, the dauntless archaeologist hewed the democratic system in pieces before the Lord. It seems that Saul. sensing that the Lord was somehow not at home, resorted to the time-honored method of casting lots to determine the guilty. This expedient, declared Professor Lake, has its modern counterpart in the casting of votes, whereby a question...
...Egyptian government maintains an agreement with foreign powers that all archaeological material found in Egyptian soil shall be divided equally between Egypt and the finder. Equal division in quantity is relatively simple, but equal division in quality offers great problems. In 1912 German Archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt quietly extracted from Tel-el-Amarna, and removed to Berlin, a gracile bust of Queen Nefertiti which was more precious to Egyptians than tons of jeweled bric-a-brac. First, it was supposed to possess magical properties. Second, it was pronounced by worldwide experts to be among the loveliest creations of the ancient dynasties...
...Egyptian expedition from the University of California from 1899 to 1905; professor of Egyptology since 1914, he has also directed the Egyptian expedition of Harvard and Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1905, he was director of the Harvard Palestinian Expedition, conducting excavations at Samaria, 1907-10. Besides being archaeologist in charge of excavations of the Egyptian government in Nubia in preparation to flooding lower Nubia by raising the Assuan dam from 1907 to 1909, Professor Reisner has written several volumes about his work...
Nicholas Roerich, now 55, migrated to the U. S. eight years ago. In Russia he was painter, archaeologist, linguist, mystic of repute. He hoped that Beauty and Art would bring Oriental and Occidental cultures together and keep the earth forever at peace. The War and Russian turbulences balked him. So he went to the U. S. to find money, without which not even religion can spread. His reputation, which neither the U. S., British, German or French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money...