Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was immediately founded, with Professor Norton as President, and has ever since remained one of the important organizations for the prosecution of research in archaeology and the fine arts. Largely through the Institute the schools for American students in Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, Bagdad, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, were founded. The Journal of the Institute is one of the leading archaeological periodicals, and it has been active in the organization of expeditions, either alone or in collaboration with one of the foreign schools...
...open-meeting of the Menorah Society tomorrow evening in the Phillips Brooks House, Professor Kirsopp Lake of the Episcopal Theological School will speak on "A Trip to Jerusalem...
...Near Jerusalem, Professor William F. Bade of an expedition sent by the Pacific School of Religion to unearth Biblical Mizpah, pressed his work and returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
...said two Jewish scientists connected with Hebrew University, Jerusalem-Dr. Fritz Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures...
Jewish Relief. Although no Jew was killed in Palestine last week, many were rendered homeless by the destruction of their houses; and students at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem found most of its buildings unsafe or utterly shaken down...