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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, I have led in Wob-Wog a French, archaeological expedition to Chinese Turkestan, which has yielded, I believe, important finds from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple...
...Cheek '26 was the chief proponent of a resolution to formulate a uniform athletic code for all American colleges and universities, which was adopted by the conference of the National Student Federation of America which met in Columbus, Missourl, during the latter part of the past week...
Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
...remarkable, too, that there has been no signal contribution to Christmas music in the last few years. Except for the one hymn of Phillips Brooks which is a part of every Christmas, the songs that are sung are those of men of two and three and more centuries ago, when Christmas meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields...
...period gown of cream crepe and silver (or was it crystal?) seemed a part of her. She was alternately serious and arch; now she reflected the lights and shadows of the land of her birth; now she was the spirit of the beauty of Paris, where she has a home; now she might be demanding that her fairy dreams might be also philosophical...