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...courses, out of a total of 50 undergraduate offerings, seems hardly a fair ratio considering the importance of this period. Avid Egyptophiles can learn about the art of Karnak and Tutankamon's tomb next year in Fine Arts 131, but they cannot discover the history of the various dynasties. Students of Minoan or Cretan developments have only Professor Hanfmann's course in Aegean archaeology--next year--without a corresponding History course...
...schoolboy was vindicated in 1939, when part of the same story was found carved on stone at Karnak. The rest was not found, and its lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...
...Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer at such diverse phenomena as Karnak's temples, Mozart quartets, Chinese gardening, Marxism, Aztec city planning, jazz, Greek vases, Napoleon, Russian grammar...
...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
...windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked out upon the Arctic winter from their dim cells, while fierce storms shattered the leaded casements and necessitated hurried and unskilful repairs by the numb hands...