Word: orientalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Roerich, demigod to many an esthete in the U. S., South America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark...
Princeton University Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, missionary. LL.D. John Pierpont Morgan, banker LL.D. James Henry Brested, orientalist Litt.D. Evarts Ambrose Graham, surgeon D.Sc. William Francis Magie, physicist D.Sc. Walter Johannes Damrosch, musician. Mus.D...
...sages, Dr. James Henry Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt...
...large number of international orientalist, authorities on Indic, Semitic, and Chinese studies, will assemble at Harvard on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week when the American Oriental Society meets in conjunction with the Second Conference on the Promotion of Chinese Studies under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies...
Harvard men were glad: George Roerich, Nicholas' son, was well. Brilliant young Orientalist, he studied there. Perfect in more than a score of Asiatic dialects, on this expedition he was his father's facile interpreter and pacifier of obstreperous brigands. He is a painter, too. His brother Sviatoslav is a portraitist. Sviatoslav has just reached Darjeeling from...