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...past two years he has been a teaching assistant in the department of political science at the university. During his educational career tenBroek won membership in Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho, debating honor society; Pal Sigma Alpha, political science honor society; Order of the Colf, legal honor body, and the Golden Bear and Winged Helmet honor societies...
Last month Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg created an archeological sensation when he announced, from San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, that he had found the funeral chamber and the mummy of one of the five kings named Sheshonk who ruled ancient Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty (TIME, April 3). It was suspected that this might be Sheshonk I, the conqueror who, according to the Old Testament, "came up against Jerusalem" and went away with all of Solomon's gold shields. Last week the mummy was identified by a "cartouche" (personal inscription) found on a breast ornament...
This archeological find, made at San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, was announced early last week by Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg who is excavating the site of ancient Tanis. Unlike many Egyptian tombs which have been despoiled by robbers, this chamber, reached by boring through a heavy wall, was found intact...
Capping off he latest series of theatricals by clubs and fraternities, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will continue its line of Elizabethan revivals with "Paul Pry" this Friday and Saturday...
Last week the chairman of the full Committee, old (80) Edward Taylor of Colorado, announced after a White House conference (at which he promised a a $994,000 irrigation project in Colorado's Delta County), that this time he would handle the $150,000,000 item himself, and that he was for it. "Purge!" cried the anti-Spenders and set their heels down harder than ever...