Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone can, it is Swedish Anthropologist Carl-Hermann HjortsjÖ. At Sweden's Lund University last week, he was getting ready to publish a paper that explained how he had used his anthropological know-how to make himself a relic detective. He began by identifying several sets of doubtful remains by correlating tradition with such data as ossification of skullcap seams, length of limb and condition of teeth. Then for Swedish saints Anthropologist HjortsjÖ used a new technique. Knowing that medieval Swedes...
Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...
...wanted Baker to remain it would have to do something quickly. "Just why this silent opposition persists is difficult to understand," a CRIMSON editorial said in the fall of 1928. "It may be a native distrust of the strange and the new or it may be an unconscious relic of the conventional point of view toward anything and everything in the slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legitimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized for some hundreds...
...excitement all began last Saturday, when news came from England that the skull of the famous "Piltdown Man," accepted for 40 years by authropologists and paleontologists as a relic of the earliest man, is actually a "most elaborate and carefully prepared hoax...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...