Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputation of the Germanic Museum, which has already been called the greatest collection of its kind in the world, has reached the point of imitation. The most salient features of the museum, according to an article by Dr. Carl Heise in "Die Wache", a Berlin weekly, are to be copied in a new museum which is being created in the neighborhood of the German capital...
...Lost World. The brontosaurus is usually a static creature. Propped on rods and wire, he observes the world with a stolid papier-maché curiosity from the floor of some museum. He is observed with awe and agitation by the restless seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like...
Under his command was a ship's company of 48 persons, including a number of scientists. One of them was Professor C. J. Fish of the University of Pittsburgh, an authority on marine life another, Dr. William R. Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History...
...Pereival Chuff, a leader of the St. Tonis, Brooklyn, and Boston Ethical Societies, will address the Harvard Ethical Club on Sunday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hines, 25 Hammond Street, just north of the University Museum. His subject will be "Browning's Philosophy of Life." All who are interested are cordially...
...oldest college in the new world, relies of that past abound in scattered places, if one only find the diligence to hunt them down. As time goes on, these mute witnesses of Harvard's history will grow more valuable. Why not make of Memorial Hall a museum devoted solely to Harvard's history." The idea merits consideration...