Show bridging the gap in human history investigation thi throws owe li light gilt on civilizations of the long past dedication of f a building nt at the university or of zhivago chicago devoted to the investigation of early ninn nian a build ing frig which finds no parallel in any other university either cither sri in america or a broad abroad 1 draws I rows the near east still nearer to the west it Is in tin the east that thai the origins of the clyl liza tion we have inherited are for the most part tild hidden den and the oriental institute under western skies sides seeks now to help man in a literal sense to orient or orient lent himself to get his hearings and see sec in true perspective the his tory of the life human race especially Is it to help bridge the gap gali between the savage of if the paleontologist and the historians story of lie people who emerge in europe as beings dr james 11 breasted with his general genera headquarters in tills this build ing has an army of diners diggers not alone with spades but also with fit modern excavating engineering directed by an archaeological archeological arche staff on a I 1 mile front stretching front from lexor luxor in egypt northward past sinai shull through palestine and sarin to the uplands of anatolia eastward and southward across mesopotamia to Pers epolis in persia many other groups are making independent research but for the first time a single organization Is able to control and correlate research and excavation throughout the leading early civil azat lons in if a single composite construction of the pre european course of numan life when for thousands fit if years man was advancing along a front from as wide ulde as the united states of special significance Is the evl evi dence that in this period man in egypt began to bear remote voices that proclaimed the utter futility of material conquest fion quest it was then that conscience and character broke upon if p on the world the coffin lids of E egypt vp binn aioo F 00 years life hip pyramid age and two millen nials 1 it C re healed a longing for felicity the he of roohi and drink and shelter in fie spacious walls or if hie file orl or en t al institute the east wilks again n aln in III its beauty and hut but ith bolerin so lerin if mit lion in I 1 the present sees sc s in every object reminders or of it 11 perished past of the death of civilizations that th it dreamed they were Ini mortill yet every ear earabell fart fact is by the spirit of skill that th it begat it and is pursed un as it a symbol of struggle leonrd an ideal rhe great greist winged bull thill that looks with steady gaze into a strange world may inny be hut but nn an early drelic dr elii of human flight ohp mans m ins race ance appearing apac choie the the strength of the bull suggesting the power of the motor that hns has inken the place of beasts of tot irden |