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Gorham Manufacturing Company Design for Ecclesiastical Staff No. 7535

📽 1931: Arrowsmith is a pre-Code drama starring Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson and Myrna Loy.

● An idealistic young medical student, Martin Arrowsmith, (Colman) introduces himself assertively to Dr. Max Gottlieb (Anson), a noted bacteriologist. Though Gottlieb deems Arrowsmith not yet ready to study with him, he is impressed by the young man's determination and honest self-appraisal, and encourages him to take the standard course of study first. When Arrowsmith graduates, Gottlieb offers him a position as his research assistant, but the young man reluctantly turns him down, having fallen in love with a nurse, Leora (Hayes). He would be unable to support her on a research assistant's meager salary. He marries, and the couple sets off for Leora's rural home town in South Dakota. (United Artists)

The Descent of Inanna: A Sumerian Tale of Injustice

Modern Jungian interpretations of the Descent of Innana assert that Inanna, through her descent into darkness, the shedding of the trappings of her former self, confrontation with her “shadow”, death of who she was, and final rebirth, is now a complete individual, wholly aware. However, the moral that an ancient hearer of the poem might take away from it, far from a “symbolic journey of the self to wholeness” is the lesson that there are consequences for one’s actions, and, further, they might also be consoled in that if bad things happened to gods and heroes due to the unpredictability of life, why should a mortal bemoan unhappy fate? The Descent of Inanna, about one of the gods behaving badly and other gods and mortals having to suffer for that behavior, would have given to an ancient listener the same basic understanding anyone today would take from an account of a tragic accident caused by someone’s negligence or poor judgment: that, sometimes, life is just not fair.

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If you’ve visited the Museum, you’re certainly familiar with today’s Fossil Friday feature: the Barosaurus and Allosaurus in the Rotunda! Rising 50 ft (15 m) above the ground, it’s the world’s tallest freestanding dinosaur mount.How does the huge skeleton of Barosaurus—whose name means “heavy reptile”—stay up? The Barosaurus is built from casts of real bone since fossils are too heavy to support in this way. The original fossils are housed in the Museum’s collections! Spot these dinosaurs and more at the Museum. Plan your visit.