Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heine," Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president, American Museum of Natural History: "Last week my wife and our curator's wife, Mrs. Barnum Brown, and Mrs. Childs Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which...
Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought John Singer Sargent's large portrait which he called "The Wyndham Sisters," but, since it was gravely named by King Edward VII when he first saw it, "The Three Graces," that remains its common title. The price is supposed to have been nearly $100,000, drawn, from a fund whose name the directors refused to divulge, but very likely the Hearn Fund...
...Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
...hour of twelve will see the Vagabond in the neighborhood of Appleton Chapel, casting his bewildered gaze first towards the Fogg Museum where Professor Post finishes his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century," and then towards nearby Robinson Hall, where Professor Conant speaks on "The Early Christians and their Architecture." After a number of indecisive starts first in one direction and then another, by which erratic motion passersby may penetrate the disguise of the Vagabond, the matter must in all probability be settled by the tossing of a coin...