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Philip J. McNiff, Lamont's head librarian, reported that only a "limited amount" of books have been found missing this year, not exceeding "the irregularity ot be expected in a group of over...
Many of Peabody's exhibits are therefore of a sufficiently high technical nature to warm the heart of the most demanding practicing anthropologist. One of the Museum's prize displays, for instance, is its room devoted entirely ot sequences of prehistoric artifacts--row on row of stone implements, demonstrating Stone Age man's first feeble attempts at tool-making. In the so-called "bone laboratory," some 15,000 human skeletal remains repose in carefully classified cases for the edification of the Univeristy's physical anthropologists. The physical anthropology section of the Museum has the distinction of possessing the largest collection...
...weeks of digging. Movius and his assistants found more than ten thousand artifacts in a trench only a meter wide by 13 meters long. He has extensive plans for future work in the area-'I'd like to dig there for six or seven years," he says. Movius hopes ot establish an international summer project at the site for interested students form institutions all over the world. "It would be a place for people who want training in excavation techniques," he explains, 'I'd be glad to take them...
Sharpest thorn in the varsity's side this year has been its lack of strength in the field events: broad jump, high jump, and 35-pound weight. B.U. capitalized on its depth in this department, and Brown figures ot do well in the field events also...
Most of the nation's art treasures are still housed in collections east ot the Mississippi, but Western museums are gaining bit by bit. This week the Los Angeles County Museum announced an acquisition that any museum would be proud to own: Peter Paul Rubens' The HolyFamily with the Dove [opposite]. The painting is probably the first Holy Family Rubens ever attempted, and unlike many of his later works, which were painted partly by apprentices, it seems to be all from his own hand. Rubens made the picture in 1609, he was 32 and had just returned...