Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slightly more grotesque than some of its neighbors. Yet for fifty years this one building was the center of College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the student of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually all but the very last of these functions has been shifted to newer and larger structures...
...Equalizing Educational Opportunity Beyond the Secondary School" will be the topic of the annual Alexander James Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education to be given by Ordway Tead, chairman of the New York City Board of Higher Education, Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum Large Lecture Hall...
Even before he became the Jesuit Provincial (in 1945), sharp-featured Father D'Arcy had an unusually widespread influence. As Master of Oxford's Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
Apprentice or master, the selection would have made little difference to the founder of the Fund, whose wish was to make poetry live for as many people as possible. As President of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Gray expounded his theory that the "real love of art that brings happiness and inspiration to the heart of man is rare and does not manifest itself in clover criticism." Contrastingly, knowledge of art was in his opinion merely a "common, intellectual interest...
When the war ended, two jungle-trotting G.I.s decided to stay in the Philippines and go tarsier trapping. Captain Harry Hoogstraal made a deal with Chicago's Natural History Museum, and Charles Wharton signed up the Washington Zoo. Then they set off into the jungle country of southern Mindanao, where tarsiers were known to be at large...