Word: warners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article was written for the Crimson by Langdon Warner '03, a Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia, on the last Chinese expedition which representatives of the Museum have taken part in. Mr. Warner and his associates returned to this country last spring and are now preparing the material they collected there for exhibition in the Fogg Museum. The 1924-25 expedition, which is the latest of Mr. Warner's several trips in China, was impeded by the fighting which was taking place in eastern China at that time. The party took a large number of photographs...
...Oriental art at the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. Dr. Horace Stimson of the Peter Beht Brigham Hospital, R. F. S. Starr, the photographer and Alan Priest '23, tutor in Fine Arts, and Daniel V. Thompson '22, also of the division of Fine Arts, were assisting in their various capacities. Langdon Warner '03, of the Fogg Museum had been delayed in Peking on other business for the college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne and Priest continued west to Urumchi the capital of Chinese Turkestan, where, after some delay, they...
...Lolly Willowes?Sylvia Townsend Warner ($2). Lady into witch...
...seeker for archaeological information in China," says the account of Mr. Warner's recent trip, "follows any clues that come his way, and generally finds that they lead, not to the promised Tang masterpiece, but to some modern atrocity. The expedition went up many of these blind alleys, but one morning it stopped to look at some caves said to contain ancient carvings. The cave turned out to be one of the most important finds of the expedition...
...roads in China," continued the account of Mr. Warner's journey, in reply discussing the external nature of the country, are, as has been said before, the last word in bad construction. In fact little or no construction is evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance...