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Grays was built on the site of Harvard's first dormitory, the "Old College." In 1642, the teachers of the College decided to establish a "more Collegiate way of living" for their pupils and, drawing one thousand pounds from John Harvard's legacy, they built the "Old College." Modeled for beauty instead of endurance, the building began to totter twenty-five years later and was abandoned. The super-functional design of Grays, lacking the Victorian flourish of its period, indicates that its creators sacrificed beauty to avoid the fate of the "Old College...
Also discussed were plans for a theatrical production at Commencement designed both to express student interest and ability and to stimulate a fund-giving spirit among outside groups. Various suggestions about the production were made, but nothing was settled beyond the site which is almost certain to be the Tercentenary theater...
Official red taps also complicated the expedition's work. The site is a protected national monument and the French Government authorization was required to take the excavated materials out of France. In addition, the site is located only a few feet from a main highway and hordes on curious motorists soon descended on the area to direct the archaeologists, in their work...
...another of Peabody's expeditions, made possible by a grant from the George Grant McCurdy Fund, Hailam L. Movius Jr., associate professor of anthropology, spent last summer excavating one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe--the Les Eyzies Paleolithic deposits in southwestern France. Even in civilized France, however, the anthropologist meets his vicissitudes. The site hardy family of Freshfarmers, and "It's the richest site I've ever seen," says Movius wistfully; "Someday I hope the Peabody Museum will...
...more than ten thousand artifacts in a trench only a meter wide by 13 meters long. He has extensive plans for future work in the area-'I'd like to dig there for six or seven years," he says. Movius hopes ot establish an international summer project at the site for interested students form institutions all over the world. "It would be a place for people who want training in excavation techniques," he explains, 'I'd be glad to take them...