Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-28

Mather. ir. Princeton University

J. Mather, jr. Princeton University
Medieval Paintings in the F'reer Col
lection Charles r. Morey, Princeton
University: "a Terra Gotta Bust of Fran
co.'s l." Allan Marquand. Princeton Uni
versity; Ivory Carvings from the Pro
vence,: E. Baldwin Smith. Princeton Uni
versity: Some Notes in Norman Vault
ing Clarence Ward. Rutgers College;
plant, Grove City College.
Section d prehistoric and Americana
'"rhe Classification of Palaeolithic lmple-
ments in North Africa" Charles T. Cur
THE Archaeological and Other Remains
in Eastern Asia of a Race Physically Al
lied to That of the North American In
dian," Ales Hrdlicka Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition: "Totemism from an American
Point of View Charles Hill-Tout. Alb.
Ruins of the Historic Period from the
Upper San Juan, New Mexico A. V.
Kidder. Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni
versity; 1.-The International Congress of
c. Fletcher Washington. D. c.: The City
Of Cajamarquilla. Peru" Charles I.
Currier. Washington, D. C.; Historic
Architecture in Santa Fe," Edgar L..
Hewett. School of American Archaeology:
New Initial. Series from Copan," Syl-
vanus G. Morley. School of American
Archaeology.
AecepC1On at Embassy.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the man
aging committee of the American School
at Jerusalem will hold meeting. AT
) o'clock the British ambassador and
Mrs. Bryce will receive the Canadian
members and visitors at the British en-
bassy.
general reception to members and
guests by the Washington Society OF the
Archaeological Institute will be held at
the Pan-American Union building tonight
at o'clock.
The present tendency for an "aris-
tocracy Of learning was decried by DIR.
Lewis B. Patton Of Hartford Theological
Seminary. in responding to the address
OF welcome in the auditorium Of the Ma
tional Museum last night. He urged that
1--WE democratize the sciences for the
benefit of the great American public"
Dr. Patton caused sensation when he
declared that the southwestern section
of the United States has petrified civili-
cation reaching more than two thousand
years further back than anything known
to either European or Asiatic civilization
SophOcles was termed more cogent
thinker than Euripides by Prof. Thomas
Dwight Goodell of Yale University in his
annual address as president of the Phil
logical Association. His subject was IAN
Athenian Critic of Life
The feature Of the addresses yesterday
before the Biblical Society was a paper
read by the president of the organization,
DR.. Lewis B. Patton of Hartford Theo-
1o"ical Seminary, who reached the con-
clusion that 1t was the Leah tribes of the
Is. ties. and not the Rachel tribes, to
which Moses and Joshua belonged, which
first conquered Canaan
DR.. Patton traced the historical story
of the conquest of Canaan by the Is
raelites, as told in the various books of
the Bible, saying that while the Book of
Joshua holds that the twelve tribes Of
Israel were united when they entered the
land Of Canaan, the Book of Judges says
that only portion of the twelve tribes
entered Canaan. He held that the Book
Of Judges is more nearly correct.
Paintings of Madonna.
In the Archaeological Institute in
terest centered in the announcement
of Prof. Clark d. Lamberton of the
Adelbert College, Western Reserve
University, that the first paintings of
the Madonna and Child do not date
from the time of the great Raphael.
but that in the first quarter of the
second century there was a painting
the Madonna and Child,
with a prophet. presumably Isaiah.
standing close at hand. He said this
was the Madonna of Priscilla. supposed
to be the daughter of Prudens. men
toned in the holy Scriptures.
The work Of the Pathological Asso-
citation was the most technical, the
delegates discussing papers dealing
with various forms of literature. Prof.
William Gardner Hale of the Univer-
sity of Chicago read a paper on the
He wanted a uniform classification for
all the modern languages.