Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked as though Producer Kane would have to pick a recipient himself and conduct his experiment without the enthusiastic support of any one. Though surely such visionaries as Poet Vachel Lindsay were largely on his side. The latter, archaeologist and artist, has been a student of the cinema since its earliest days. He clearly sees Cinematography as the national art-form it indubitably is. Nearly ten years ago he was persuading the Art Institute of Denver to share that view, take up the art form, develop and preserve...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...
...acquisition of Professor Puig I Cadafalch is a great step for the University. The importance of this versatile Spaniard is shown by the statement of Professor A. Kingsley Porter, Professor of Fine Arts, who declared yesterday: "Puig, I Cadafalch, architect, archaeologist, statesman, and writer, was for many years president of the Mancumanitat in Barcelona, where he took active part in political questions of the day. He was also one of the leading spirits in building up the Institute of Catalan Studies, Which has become an exceedingly important centre for research, especially in artistic and archaeological fields...
...archaeologist must not only be a scholar and historian," Dr. Reisner went on to explain, "but must be an organizer and administrator with a certain amount of practical business sense. He must, furthermore, give a fair amount of time to the study of efficiency in the work of actual excavation and in the methods of recording his observations...
...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...