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Homolka, though the main objective of the expedition, was not the only place explored; less extensive excavations were carried on at four other carefully selected points, all in Czechoslovakia. At Lazovice was found a cemetery where the pagan Slavic conquerors of Bohemia of 1,000 years ago buried their dead. With their skeleton were found pots, ornaments, and iron weapons. At Tisice were unearthed the remains of eight large houses built by an iron-using people who lived approximately 2,500 years ago. At Krtenov a still more ancient cemetery of the bronze age, perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Harvard-Pennsylvania Bohemian Expedition Reports Finds---Habits of Europeans 4000 Years Ago are Described | 6/11/1931 | See Source »

...most outstanding European archaeological discoveries of recent years, a four thousand year-old fortress, was unearthed at Holmolka, Bohemia, by a group of American archaeologists, members of the Central European Expedition of the Peabody Museum of Harvard and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement made by University Hall yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD FORTRESS IS FOUND IN BOHEMIA BY GROUP | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...lonely road he encounters one Marilyn, a pretty and willful girl. Almost before he knows it he finds himself in the midst of Long Island Bohemia. Marilyn is in love with a sinister but sentimental racketeer, one-armed Charlie MacRae, who in turn idolizes the slightly shopworn Sheila. Andre likes these people, feels more at home with them than with his socialite sister-in-law, and gives the rest of his days and nights to their rowdy company. He thinks it would be a good thing for MacRae to marry Sheila, and does everything he can to put them together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White* | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...true, little thought has been given to the children. They have been robbed of fairies and Santa Claus and everything which makes life worth living. Now this thoughtless devastation of beliefs must stop. It has come to the point of destroying the very basis of art. What will Bohemia do, if obscurity is removed as a foundation of artistic achievement? Suppose art juries discover that dynamic symmetry may be dispensed with by a truly "original" artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURA POESIS | 1/28/1931 | See Source »

What, then, are the effects of the house plan not upon the submerged and minuscule minority, but upon the normal undergraduate, upon his social habits, his method of physical existence, his extracurricular activities in the college itself, his eating and drinking, his relations with Mayfair and with Bohemia, his contacts and his clubs--in general, upon the things that really occupy every portion of his day and night save the begrudged or casual hour or two he may spend at lectures or in the library as insurance against the ever-present menace of examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Plan Has Not Forced Harvard Men Completely to Take the Veil, Says Beebe in Columns of New York Herald-Tribune | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

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