Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passageways between the seminar rooms where I think I overheard an Egyptian 201 class, are arrayed an assortment of copies of Near Eastern sculpture. There is a four-sided stella, which, if I remember correctly, is a copy of the copy in the British Museum. It is called the Black Obelisque, and on it the Assyrian king Shalmanesar III recorded his conquest of most of the Near East, including Babylon. Nearby is a cast of an Assyrian bas-relief which shows kings impaling their captives on spears...
...neighboring alcove, there is an imitation of the Hammurabi code. The original, in the Louvre, is black with a bas-relief of Hammurabi, standing, receiving the law from a god. The Semitic Museum's imitation is white. It has a replica of the bas-relief, but the stella itself seemed to be blank. Later, in the light, I saw that the code had been meticulously cast on the copy. At least they had not classified that, I thought...
John V. Monro 35, former Dean of the College, writing in the October 27 issue of The Nation magazine said that ways must be found to strengthen the black colleges and suggested that one of these ways might be for black and white colleges to work together...
...must quit worrying whether it is the 'right thing' to suport the black colleges." the article said. "They are here to stay because, poor though they are, they are performing a critical function as educational insti utions and as centers of community strength...
...cases. While we do not believe that students should be involved in decisions on specific applications for admissions or scholarships, we do think that they are properly concerned with policy questions, and we can visualize many fruitful possibilities for student-committee collaboration following the precedent of the use of Black students for recruiting. We have sought to meet students' interests in this area, not by membership in the Committee on Admissions and Scholarships, but by recommending that the joint student-faculty committee on Students and Community Relations serve as a forum to discuss admissions and scholarship policies in the College...