Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Scott's annual report on the activities of the Peabody Museum indicates the extent and diversification of Harvard's anthropological research. A Boston newspaper's headline, pointing to Tibet and Chelsea, Massachusetts as marking the division's scope of study, gives an accurate idea of this diversification. The various scenes of investigation, however, do not mean that the Museum lacks a unified objective, which, as Mr. Scott explains, is to assemble complete series of data which will illustrate such occurrences "as the spread of Paleolithic and neolithic man over all three continents of the Old World...
Greenhouses of the Botanical Gardena have been abandoned and the plants sent to various institutions, said Elmer D. Morrill, Administrator of the Botanical Collections in his annual report issued today...
Paul A. Vestal '32, the report continues, is studying the history of the wild grasses and plants and their development into the semi- and fully developed domesticated species which are the basis of man's civilized existence. Meanwhile, Sherwood L. Washburn is studying the paleontology of excavated animal bones for light on man's diet and habits during the neolithic period...
...Museum has enlisted the cooperation of the Departments of Geology, Botany, and Zoology in this study, he added. Joseph E. Upson is compiling a physiographic report of the then existing terrain; indicating elevations, drainage systems, climate, rainfall, and productive soils...
...melted with yesterday's announcement that Professor Kilpatrick will give the Macy Lectures in 1938 and 1939. For a while the enforcing of the retirment law looked like a gag upon the liberal and controversial teacher. He does not think that his throat is being cut, nonetheless, and the report of his new position verifies the friendly words of Dean Russell before the New Orleans Convention...