Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Current Exhibition of Japanese Decorative Art" is the subject of a lecture to be given by Langdon Warner '03, Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for research in Asia, in the large lecture hall of the Museum at 4.30 o'clock...
...with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength to fly the Atlantic. That this flock had done so, W. H. D. Witherby, British ornithologist, asserted in London last week. He had just received a small aluminum ring found in Newfoundland on the leg of one of those wearied lapwings. He himself...
...Fourteen expeditions are working in West Asia at present and of these, six are American," were the words of Professor John Garstang, Honorary Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...program for tonight follows: "Le Tombeau de Couperin," suite for orchestra Ravel Sarabande and Dance Orchestrated by Ravel Debussy Rapsodi Espagnole Ravel "Scheherazade," three poems for voice and orchestra, to the verses of Tristan Klingsor: Ravel I. "Asia" II. "The Enchanted Flute" III. "The Indifferent One" "La Valse," a choreographic poem Ravel
...late Charles M. Hall, inventor of the modern processes for making aluminum, left in his will a very substantial bequest to the trustees of his estate, Mr. Homer H. Johnson '88 and Mr. Arthur V. Davis, to be devoted to educational work in Asia and the Balkan States in such manner and through such agencies as his trustees might think best. The trustees, acting under the discretionary power given them, have devoted a considerable part of Mr. Hall's bequest to the endowment of the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, with centers in Cambridge and in Peking...