Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second expedition to China under the leadership of Mr. Langdon Warner, '03, Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia, accompanied by Mr. Horace H. Jayne, Curator of Oriental Art in the Pennsylvania Museum, Mr. Alan R. Priest, '20, Horace p. Steinson '22, and R. F. Starr sailed from Vancouver on December 19, 1924. In China Mr. Daniel v. Thompson '22, and Mr. Allan Clark, the American sculptor, also joined the party. The expedition reached its objective the caves of Tun Huang, but owing to the unsettled conditions in China it was not possible to work in the Caves...
...annual reports of the Peabody Museum and the Fogg Art Museum made public this week show an increasing activity on the part of the representatives of these museums in the fields of research and exploration. There have also been many valuable additions to the stock of the two museums, some of which are recent discoveries and others transfers from other collections...
...more than University interest has been the work of excavation carried on in Greece and Asia Minor by Dr. Hety Goldman. Dr. Goldman is engaged in archaeological research for the Fogg Art Museum and is worki9ngg in cooperation with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In the fall of 1924 excavations at Eutresis, Boeotia, resulted in valuable finds; a Greek male torso of the type of the early fifth century; the lower half of an archale seated female figure; and various kinds of pottery and other minor arts...
...field of technical research interesting experiments have been tarried on with the x-ray under the direction of Mr. Alan Burrougas, Curator of Paintings of the Minneapolis institute of Arts, with a grant from the Milton Fund for Research. To quote from Mr. Burroughs' report to the Director, these experiments show that the x-ray has developed into a valuable addition to the expert's equipment for judging the antiqritv or genuineness of paintings more than 100 years old, or for estimating in some cases the evidence of authorship on more tangible grounds than style and feeling. This development involves...
...That students who pass successfully the Junior generals be required in their Senior year to do intensive study and research under the guidance of the tutors upon some topic which they be restricted field upon which they be required to write a thesis, the standard of which should be higher than the standard now set for distinction theses...