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Conspicuous in the New York Times of yesterday is the startling announcement. "Traces of Hairpin and Button Factory, 2000 years old, found by Count de Prorok." Utica, the oldest Punic City in North Africa is the scene of the excavations, which disclosed more than a hundred hairpins and almost two dozen buttons. The explorers are working continuously, spurred on by the hope of finding a really ancient hairpin factory. This no doubt would be an achievement and the Count de Prorok could expect nothing less than immortality for his reward, while the faithful members of his little band could hold...
...discovery opens vast commercial possibilities, now that the fashions dictated by the regime of King Tut are on the decline. Think of the possibilities of genuine Punic buttons on Mi-lady's newest gown. Then, too, the discovery is not without historical value. One can now be practically certain that women did exist at the time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok...
Carthage. The excavations under Count Byron Kuhn de Prorok and the Prince de Waldeck have been suspended, but a more systematic scheme of operations will be started later by arrangement with the French authorities. A Roman chapel and Punic tombs were unearthed. The government has been aroused by indiscriminate vandalistic excavations, and future work at Carthage will be limited to those having permits from the resident-general at Tunis...
...will be three in number: History 3a, a history of the ancient world from Alexander the Great to Augustus; History 45, covering the history and monuments of the ancient East; and History 20h, a research course intended primarily for graduates, in which the origin and opening of the Second Punic War will be considered. Each will count as a half-course...
...last Livy is rendered into clear, intelligible, good fighting English, by such well-known scholars as Alfred John Church, the Oxonian, and William Jackson Broderibb, a late fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, says the N. Y. Times. The translation covers the history of the second Punic war, and is the only one of any merit that has been made since Baker's, which was published...