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...this course is conveyed almost entirely in the lectures, its success has been in large part the result of Professor Chase's pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Prehistoric Greece, but the body of the course is devoted to the Great Age of Greece; the student is given a detailed discussion of the buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

DAMASCUS LIES NORTH-Edward Thompson-Knopf ($2.35). Love and war in Palestine, by the author of These Men Thy Friends (best war-novel of the Mesopotamia campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...executive service. Making no secret of his backstairs origin (onetime hallboy), he educated himself, impressed Horatio Herbert Kitchener in the Boer War by doing jobs others had failed at. In the World War he believed in concentration on the Western front, opposed dispersal of Britain's armies in Mesopotamia, Suez, Eastern Africa, opposed a supreme war council of Allied generals, quarreled with Lloyd George, resigned in February 1918 as staff chief. After Germany's great March offensive, he succeeded Lord French as Commander-in-Chief in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Peace Conference Lawrence was a member of the British Delegation and acted as Feisal's interpreter; fought hard to help the Arabs keep what they had won. When Syria was made a French mandate and Mesopotamia British, Lawrence

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Temples and Palaces in Mesopotamia," Professor Chase, Fogg Large Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/14/1932 | See Source »

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