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...Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially. The possibilities of the cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted...
...Author. Archaeologist and historian by training, Author Undset is a novelist by instinct and by closely scheduled labor. Dressed in the national costume of a mediaeval Viking matron, she devotes the day to her five children, to her 16th century house, to her famous flower garden. and the quiet evening to her writing...
...Palestine. Whenever an archaeologist digs up something ancient in Palestine there is joy, whether the object corroborates a Biblical story or whether it indicates a pre-history which the Biblical reporters knew nothing...
Died. Theodore Reinach, 68, famed French barrister, historian, archaeologist, Jewish leader, authority on comparative religion, Hellenic literature, brother of Salomon Reinach, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle; in Paris...
...writing, engravings or paintings were found. A hole had been smashed in the doorway of the fourth chamber and its contents were in confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large picnic baskets filled with perfectly preserved dates; an ostrich feather fan, chiseled alabaster vases, ushabiti (statuettes religiously reputed to perform menial tasks for the dead). King Tut, as everyone...