Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Mus, wartime De Gaullist leader in Indo-China and an authority on Indo-Chinese archaeology, will deliver a lecture at 4 p.m. this afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum...
...money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the extremes of Harvard's mongrel collection, the Germanic Museum certainly qualifies for the other. The red-roofed building, adorned with Teutonic eagles and lions and a quotation from Schiller, sits on the corner of Kirkland Street and Divinity Avenue like a misplaced Valkyrie grown slightly stout...
...chalk-white modern theatrical mask was stolen from the Germanic Museum late Friday afternoon, leaving professors and police baffled for a motive...
Professor Charles L. Kuhn, Curator of the museum, explained last night that the mask was really not too valuable, having been carved only recently by a New York man. Kuhn called the thievery the first in the museum in several years...
...debates will compete today for two $100 prizes in the annual Coolidge debate contest which will start at 3 p.m. in the Germanic Museum...