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CORRECTION: The Nov. 15, 2005 news article "Profs E-mail Critical of Pres." incorrectly attributed remarks to Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art Thomas B. F. Cummins saying that he had not signed a statement critical of University President Lawrence H. Summers. In fact, no Crimson reporter ever spoke with Professor Cummins regarding the article...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies Gary Urton and first-year archaeology graduate student Carrie J. Brezine used a new database to study patterns on the strings, known as khipu. The strings were used as a recording system in the Inca Empire, which reached its height in the late 1400s in what is now Peru...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Thomas B. F. Cummins said the new research could dispel the notion that the Inca had only a primitive recording system...
Bois said that the department still seeks to fill endowed chairs in Spanish and South and Southeast Asian art, and to hire for positions in seventeenth-century European and pre-Columbian art and modern architecture...
Lincoln and Douglass also shared many common interests. They loved music and literature and educated themselves (Douglass on the sly while a slave) by reading the same books: Aesop's Fables, the Bible, Shakespeare and especially The Columbian Orator, a popular anthology of speeches for boys. They were athletic, strong and tall: Douglass was about 6 ft., Lincoln 6 ft. 4 in., when the average height for men was 5 ft. 7 in. They refrained from alcohol and tobacco at a time when many politicians "squirted their tobacco juice upon the carpet" and drank on the job. They were ambitious...