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In 1919 I spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had...
*Some scholars believe that this peak rather than the modern Mt. Sinai, is the site of the burning bush through which God spoke to Moses. Because Mount St. Catherine is high, dry and dustless, the Smithsonian Institution now has a solar observatory thereon.
Man. Consensus of scientists has therefore been that the forbears of Amerindians straggled into Alaska some 15,000 years ago, that prior traces of man on this continent should be viewed skeptically. Thus the academicians in Cambridge pricked up their ears last week when Dr. John Campbell Merriam, paleontologist, geologist...
It was not thus in the days of Frederick the Great, of Catherine of Russia. Democracy, in bringing us other things, has clearly cost us this. Professor Sprague did all that was possible in laying his case before the administration. And he did all that was possible in laying it...