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From Russia, came reports: 1) Of an unknown seal of King Artaxerxes (I or III) of Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...basement of Persis Smith Hall, used for years as the shooting gallery of the University rifle team, will discard its military aspect this year, for that of a linen storeroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noise and Smell of Range in Smith Halls Cellar Annoy Authorities and Shooting Gallery Becomes Linen Closet | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...Freshmen to the aroma of the power and to the noise of the rifles late at night, objections registered by the janitor to the numerous electric light bulbs and window panes shattered by erring marksmen, and the urgent need of that part of the building for a linen storeroom, are among the reasons for the election of the rifle team, although the official notification received by Captain B. D. Leaney '26, embraces only the last named reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noise and Smell of Range in Smith Halls Cellar Annoy Authorities and Shooting Gallery Becomes Linen Closet | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will be placed on public exhibition. Voltaire's heart was recently discovered in a storeroom of the French National Library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...Professor Cizek's Art School in Vienna created a considerable sensation. Some of the pictures by children of 12 or 13 were extraordinary. Speaking of them Professor Cizek said: " When a child comes here I don't tell him what to do. I bring him into the storeroom and let him rummage through all my treasures-paints and brushes, chalks and canvas, wood for carving, clay for modeling . . . and he soon finds out what he wants to do and he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Let Him Rummage | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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