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...Porter was the wife of Harvard archeologist A. Kingsley Porter, and she asked that the humanities-social sciences professorship he named after him. If the chair is made a University professorship, it will be the twelfth of this kind. Among the current holders of University professorships are Paul H. Buck, I. A. Richards, Paul A. Freund, and Edward M. Purcell, Paul J. Tillich held a University professorship until his retirement last June...
...John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...
...Hebrew Bible is a "monument of logic born of experience," William F. Albright, noted archeologist and historian, asserted at the opening talk of the Thursday afternoon lecture series last week. Albright, W W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University, criticized several theories comparing Greek and Hebrew thought in his attempt to indicate "The Place of the Old Testament in Logical Thinking...
Rather the archeologist went on to note several examples of logic based on experience in the Hebrew Bible, asserting that "no book is based so largely on empirical-logical thinking" as the Old Testament. While there are no syllogisms in the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew and other Semitic cultures had "systematized law: they had taken from the multitude of cases general propositions, all stated in the form of 'if . . . , then...
...partner in the present effort is Professor Detweiler of Cornell. "There are two essential people in an excavation" says Professor Hanfmann, "an archeologist and an architect. Detweiler is both...