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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right of every newspaperman--has behind it, in all probability, the substance of actual fact. Only the members of the Harvard Corporation knew what passed in their meeting on Monday. In the absence of an official statement of the transaction, it appears evident that whatever news there was, found its way into print through a friendly medium in the Corporation itself...
...placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
...structure, which will be built in the form of a crescent, will be removed at the close of the football season, according to Mr. Bingham. It may be found necessary to move the Carey Building, the old cage which is still in use, but this building is too valuable to Harvard athletes to be disposed of entirely...
...still more remote. Even putting these practical considerations aside, there is much to be said for the present day theory of education, which is based on the principle that concentrated study of a restricted field is the best method of arriving at the universal truths which are to be found in every department of learning...
...Anderson Galleries, famed red plush repository of art and art auctions. On the third floor is tiny Room 303, known as the Intimate Gallery, littered with picture frames, books, mucilage pots, framed and unframed paintings. In the room, at almost any time during the winter season, may be found a keen-eyed little man in a baggy grey suit. He peers inquisitively through silver spectacles, his grey mustache and hair are scraggly, uncombed. His name is Alfred Stieglitz. He is a lover and maker of photographs.* And he is one of the quietest and most admired characters...