Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harkness, through whose generosity it is possible for the Harvard House Plan to become a reality, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and was graduated from Yale in 1897. Besides being a director of many railroads, he is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Publishing Library, and the Union Theological Seminary...
Harmony at Harvard. While the brethren in Manhattan were quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among...
...faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee...
...Close of first loan exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...
...presentation of the miracle play is a custom which the Dramatic Club has carried on from year to year, one which affords students an opportunity to see a form of drama rarely produced nowadays. The cathedral background of the Germanic Museum, with its reproduction of the great arch of the cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany, forms an ideal setting for the performance...