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...tomb of Queen Hetephenes, the mother of Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, has just been opened by Professor G.A. Reisner '89. Professor of Egyptology at the University, who has spent several years making excavations in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids...
...Coolidge '15, president of the Museum, will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds yet made in Egypt. The tomb dates from about the year 3000 B. C., and is situated at a depth of nearly 100 feet within the precincts of the Great Pyramid. The royal burial chamber was filled with furniture, vessels of gold, pottery, and stone. An alabaster sarcophagus, in perfect state of preservation, undoubtedly contains the body of the queen...
Marvels. The ancient Hindu civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible...
Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose...
...leisurely reading. Oscar Wilde said that our youthfulness was our oldest tradition. "It has been going on now for 300 years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will be erected on a scaffolding of light, standard-size steel girders. --New York Times...