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...small guinea-pig-like redent. The expedition was headed by Dr. Thomas Barbour, director of the muscum of comparative zoology and professor of zoology. He was accompanied by his family and by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Greenway of the museum staff; Mr. Froelich Rainey of Yale was the archeologist...
...made possible by the late Dr. Hiram J. Messenger (Cornell 1881) "to provide a course of lectures on the evolution of civilization, for the special purpose of raising the moral standards of our political, business and social life." The first series was delivered in 1925 by Chicago's Archeologist James Henry Breasted. Subsequent lectures have included physicists, psychologists and geneticists. In calling another physicist to deliver the Messenger messages, instead of a great economist as "our political, business and social life" of .today might have suggested, Cornell's officials had profound considerations. Not the least profound was their...
Iraq. A director of diggers is Dr. James Henry Breasted, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, foremost U. S. archeologist. Now 68, he has twelve lieutenants at work all over the Near East. Last year he visited them by airplane, brought back news of a great aqueduct built by Sennacherib (TIME, Jan. 1). Last month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns...
...Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
...Harvard University ball in the wilds of Panama at which the natives became too hilarious was one of the sidelights of our expedition," the CRIMSON was told yesterday by Samuel K. Lothrop '15, Peabody Museum archeologist, whose discoveries of valuable material in Central American graves were recently announced...