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...also announced by the Museum authorities that Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 is still in Egypt excavating the tomb of Queen Betepet-Heres, probably the mother of King Cheops, which was discovered last year by the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. This discovery, said J. F. Coolidge '15, president of the Museum, will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds yet made in Egypt. The tomb dates from about the year 3000 B. C., and is situated at a depth of nearly 100 feet within the precincts of the Great Pyramid. The royal burial...
...Theodore Roosevelt: "Many a distinguished lady and gentleman made the annual pilgrimage to my husband's tomb at Oyster Bay, L. I., on the eighth anniversary of his death, last week. Congressman Hamilton Fish simultaneously lauded him in the House of Representatives, and the trustees of the New York State Roosevelt Memorial reported to the New York Legislature, outlining final plans for a memorial wing at the American Museum of Natural History and asking for $700,000 of the $2,500,000 appropriated for its erection...
...retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought to him by fawning mer- chants. The tremendous arches, waterworks and sewers at ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except our makin' that progress. . . . The kind He patronizes are the boys that...
...signifies "translation"--Wendell's translation of a ninth-century narrative of Eginhard "with the constant aid of Teulet's French version." The word "Translation" in the title does not even signify the wafting of two saints from earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle. The miracles wrought by the relics, and even by portions...
...waters of baptism who pardoned your faults and healed your sorrows, who lifted heavenward the Body of Christ offered in the Sacrifice, who gave ( you the bread of the strong, who blessed your chaste loves, who assisted at the bed of your dying and who prayed at the tomb ol your deceased...