Word: orientalistes
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Harvard men were glad: George Roerich, Nicholas' son, was well. Brilliant young Orientalist, he studied there. Perfect in more than a score of Asiatic dialects, on this expedition he was his father's facile interpreter and pacifier of obstreperous brigands. He is a painter, too. His brother Sviatoslav is a portraitist. Sviatoslav has just reached Darjeeling from...
...Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared the expedition would never...
...chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, that baseball players and fisticuffers have as good a right in his Dictionary as Congressmen; elected Professor James Henry Breasted, Chicago Orientalist, president of the American Historical Association, James Harvey Robinson, humanizer of knowledge, first vice president; heard various professors explain that the business man must study economics...
...Friedlander, a German authority on prints and North European painting, Professor Adolp Goldschmidt, an eminent German Mediaevalist who is to give a series of lectures at Harvard next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard Berenson, an eminent authority in the field of Italian painting and Arthur Waley of the British Museum...
...William Montgomery McGovern, distinguished British orientalist and explorer will lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "To Lhasa in Disguise", and will be illustrated with pictures taken with great difficulty by the explorer on his epoch-making expedition to Tibet's capitol...