Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, one George R. Clark of Cynwyd, Pa., Harvard sophomore, sat down on the steps of Harvard's new Fogg Museum, took off his shoes, proceeded to bathe his feet. Spying a Chinese student about to enter the museum, he arose and shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he tossed the frightened Oriental down the steps. At a group of Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each...
...Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he looked no happier when the press carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking ponderously on his specially constructed truck in Waycross, Ga.; engulfing his daily 1,200 lb. of fish; thunderously snorting at his keeper. The unfortunate who really had died was not a circus aristocrat but a mere elephant-seal...
...Manhattan's socially outworn Riverside Drive, a skyscraper-Museum, dedicated to one man, was formally opened last week. The man was Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich (TIME, July 1), famed Russian painter-writer-explorer-philosopher. The brick skyscraper, designed by Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, uniquely graduated in tone from deep purple at the base to white at the top, symbolizes "growth," houses more than 1,000 of Professor Roerich's exotic paintings, is dedicated to international culture, world peace. Present at the dedication was the Professor himself and his two apple-cheeked sons. His audience wandered through the museum...
...Matthew Arnold", Professor Garrod, Fogg Art Museum, 8 o'clock, October...
...triomphe de Part gothique: La cathedral de Chartres", Professor Aubert, Fogg Art Museum, 4.30 o'clock, October...