Word: directoral
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American School for the study of Archaeology in Palestine has been started at Jerusalem. Professor C. C. Torrey, of the department of Semitic in Yale University, has gone as director of the school for the current year, and work has begun under his charge. At a recent joint meeting of the Oriental Society and the American Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, by which the Palestine school was founded, Dr. James B. Nies was authorized to try to raise by subscription $200,000 to be added to the present very small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies...
...report of Professor Charles H. Moore, director of the Fogg Art Museum, for the year 1899-1900, is shortly to be published. The list of accessions, which forms the leading feature of the report, shows that steady and gratifying progress has been made in the formation of a valuable working collection of original works of art. Chief among these are the undetermined head in red marble, and the four paintings of religions subjects, presented by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95. Two drawings by Samuel Prout two by John Ruskin, and a water color by J. M. W. Turner, have been...
...Helms and Mr. E. Delmar, of the Manhattan chess club, will be aoiudicators and Dr. L. B. Broughton will act as director of the match...
General Oliver O. Howard, director of the Lincoln Memorial University in Kentucky, will speak at the Old Cambridge Baptist church tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock on "The Education of White Boys and Girls in the Cumber land Mountains." Abraham Lincoln was born in these mountains and it was in his honor that the university was named A cordial invitation to be present is extended...
These lectures are based upon the recent discoveries in the Island of Crete by Mr. Arthur Evans, of Oxford, Director of the National Museum. It was in this island that Mr. Evans found the remains of an ancient temple, built 1400 years before Christ, which contained a large number of inscriptions, both in pictorial and linear writing. Up to the present time however no one has been able to translate them. The lecture to night will be of an introductory nature. On Tuesday and Friday nights the lectures will take up this ancient Cretan alphabet and the discoveries at Knossos...