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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second period found the Crimson players still on the offensive. Captain O'Conuell led the onsiasgot with two goals, and was soon followed by Wenner and Rex, all three men working up a total of three baskets each in short order...
...French, archaeological expedition to Chinese Turkestan, which has yielded, I believe, important finds from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit...
...been killed or scattered, and the memory of the hoard died out. It was rediscovered by chance in 1900, but luck had it that in the course of the next few years no Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein and myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese authorities of what I had left on the spot. A mission was sent and brought of Peking the rest of the manuscripts; a list of these...
There are also two photostats of prints in a book on Oxford with engravings done by James Loggan in the late seventeenth century. The original may be found in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. They are entitled "Prospect of Oxford from the East near London Road" and "Prospect of Oxford from the South near Abbington Road...
...besieged by high school girls, who found her graciously willing to autograph their programs. Harold F. McCormick, Chicago multimillionaire, who is the husband of the artist, was in the group...