Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...external architecture of the New Museum, which is constructed of red brick with limestone cornices, harmonizes with the traditions of Harvard buildings, but within the structure is carried out in the style of the Italian Renaissance of the sixteenth century...
Invitations have just been sent out for the opening ceremonies of the New Fogg Art Museum which are to be held on Monday, June 20, at 11 o'clock. President Lowell will preside at the dedication of the new building, at which Bishop William Lawrence '71 is to read the prayer, and Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will deliver a poem. The Glee Club will then sing several numbers...
Following the exercises the entire building will be thrown open to the inspection of the guests. The museum will be opened to the general public on Class Day, Tuesday, June...
Snake-eaters, Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more...
Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...