Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These and other matters concerning the life and times of the King of Ur were announced last week by C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. The finding of the gold head of the harp led the diggers to the grave...
Indubitably the friendship which grew up between the two men had much to do with the rapid rise of Robert Clarkson. In 1921 he was made a vice-president, in 1925 a director, vice-chairman of the executive committee, an assistant to the president. With these pebbles in his pocket, it surprised few astute financial observers to learn, last week, that he had picked up one more...
...Willoughby, who has been, since 1915, director of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in the University, has presented his resignation which will go into effect next September, when he will become director emeritus. He has been connected with the Peabody Museum since 1899, when he became an assistant curator; for two years he was also an Austin Teaching Fellow in American Archaeology and Ethnology. From 1913 to 1915 he was assistant director of the Museum...
...also been secretary of the Provident Institution for Savings, and a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Mr. Wolcott was a member of Battery A. Massachusetts Militia for seven years and afterwards second and first lieutenant in Troop B of the Massachusetts Guard; as a member of the latter organization he was on duty in the autumn of 1919 during the police strike in Boston. On October 22, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Army and was detailed to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on November...
...still, puzzled over the strange fish which they have just received. It was caught off Brown's bank, 60 miles southwest of Nova Scotia by fishermen on the schooner Wanderer, and because it could not be identified it was packed in ice and shipped to Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...