Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income of the Museum has been so entirely insufficient for its needs, that maintenance of the absolutely necessary daily work has required the practice of extreme economy and much effort. Largely as a result of this condition there has been an absence of modernization, and there is today an entire absence of the most ordinary labor-saving appliances and facilities for work. The same reasons have led to conditions inimical to the teaching and research study which should be the primary objects of a university museum...
...interest among many of those who have the advantages of a college education and the training of experts in the science, upon the other hand. These two purposes are by no means entirely antagonistic, but one or the other should be primary. In consideration of the situation of our museum at a considerable distance from the center of population in this locality, of the general purposes of the University which contains it, and in special, of the great contributions to the advancement of science in the large and increasing number of professional anthropologists which the Division is constantly turning...
...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...
Makes Study of Museum...
After taking office on September 1, last, and after making a careful study of the condition of the Museum, I reported to President Lowell that the arrangement of the Museum seemed to me to be admirably adapted to artistic effect and to exhibition of many of the specimens, but that I could not avoid concluding that it thoroughly resembled the condition of the traditional nouveau riche's library, who had arranged his books only by the size and color of their bindings and for consequent display of their beauty to his friends, in contra-distinction to that of the scholar...