Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Professor Reisner's work has been of the greatest value to history and science. Not only has he revealed and carefully recorded the history, character, and customs of the ancient and little-known Ethiopian race; he has also thrown light on a more famous people, the Egyptian, and made important contributions to the art of the world by his discoveries of ancient statues and tomb-relics. His methods and his results have brought him due renown; Harvard is proud to have him working under her name...
...second is a farce entitled "Beating the Village God". The actors are all Chinese students at the University. The English, and also the American number is a one-act play, "X-O, A Night of the Trojan War," by Mr. John Drinkwater. Philippine songs, Russian music, and an Egyptian Slave Dance complete the program...
...thirteen scenes it is hard to choose those which are the best. "Japanella" with the Mayakos, "At the Cottage Gate" with Muriel Harrison and Earl Benham, singing "Good-bye Sunshine, Hello, Moon"; and "The Lady of the Pyramids" with an Egyptian dance by Vanda Hoff may be picked as a few of the many delightful bits in the entertainment. As for music, "I love the Land of Old Black Joe" and "My Sahara Rose" give melody. The Acrobats, Messeurs Regal and Moore, at first burlesque their profession in an amusing manner and then prove themselves to be performers of unusual...
...whets the appetite anew for the kind of research in which American universities were engaging enthusiastically when the war interrupted it. To Chicago also will go a quantity of materials uncovered by Dr. Breasted in Egypt. The whole story of the finding and deciphering of these ancient records, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Assyrian cuneifornt, and other difficult inscriptions, is one of the fascinating tales of the patience and ingenuity of scholarship. Boston Herald