Palestine Exploration Exhibits in New Wing of Penn. University Museum

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

A new wing of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania opened here yesterday, contains a room devoted to ### collections recently made by the joint expeditions of the University Museum and the British Museum at Ur of the Chaldees. Another room is devoted to the collections obtained by the Museum’s expedition to ancient Bethshan in Palestine, where the famous Temple of Ashtaroth of Biblical times has been found.

The new wing is named in honor of the late Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr., who was president of the Museum from 1910 to 1916, and who left an endowment for the continuance of excavation and research in Egypt. In addition to explorations at Ur and Bethshan, work has been conducted at the ancient cities of Memphis and Denereh, as well as in the Valley of the Kings and at Gizeh.

Among the ten new exhibition rooms added to the Museum, one is devoted to Persian art and another to the decorative genius of the Arabs. Including the objects of Biblical interest in the older part of the Museum the entire collection now affords as complete a view of the life and records of the times of the Hebrew prophets as can be obtained in the United States.

Philip Scotch, a sixteen-year old Jewish boy acted as junior mayor of Newark. N. J., during the Boys’ Week celebration there last week. Other Jewish boys participating in the observance in “official capacities” were Louis Garodnick, director of public safety: Harold Belgard, deputy: Irving Werner, director of public works: Ben Lithmann, deputy; and Isadore Weinberg, deputy director of parks and public property. The boys occupied the places of the regular commissioners at the latters’ weekly meeting.

Hyman Stern was voted the best athlete in senior class of the Baltimore City College. He has starred on the school’s football, baseball and basketball teams.

Milton Blumenfield was voted the most studious senior because of the unusually high marks he received in all his studies.