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...article by P. J. Sachs '00, Assistant Director, in a current issue of the Graduates' Magazine. Of the many paintings which have been added during this time perhaps the most notable are these: a highly important "Annunciation" by the 14th century Siennese painter, Andrea Vanni; three parts of an altar-piece by Spinello Aretino; a superb little picture of "Christ in Limbo" in an almost perfect state of preservation painted by the 15th century artist, Stefano di Giovanni; and, lastly, a very fine portrait of Nicolas Triest, Baron d'Auweghem, painted by Van Dyck in his early manner...
...scene presents a village on the edge of the Arabian Desert, with a stone altar, and the vestiges of Job's mansion, and both the scenic and lighting effects are unusual. The cast is as follows: Satan, M. Roth '17 Job, W. M. Silverman '18 Bildad, L. S. Levy '17 Zophar, W. Hettleman '19 Eliphaz, J. Auslander '17 Elihu, D. Lewis '16 Voice out of the Whirlwind H. Epstein '16 Choregus, J. Watchmaker...
...historical importance. There are, as we know, only two paintings by this master in American collections. The one is the picture formerly in the Allessandri Palace, now in the Morgan Library, which unfortunately has been cut into three pieces; the other, which is at the Boston Museum, is an altar wing showing four Saints. The Fogg picture is consequently of unusual importance. It is of special interest for any collection of early Italian paintings, since Fra Filippo holds so significant a position in Florentine art, representing as he does the transition from late Gothic to early Renaissance. It belongs evidently...
...estimated that ten thousand, two hundred and fifty Cambridge men have come forward to serve their country. Already nearly one in seven is numbered among the killed, the wounded, or the prisoners. The most brilliant gifts intellectual, administrative and physical, have been offered freely and without complaint upon the altar of our country. The list of those who have won distinction is enough to fill our hearts with thankfulness that Cambridge has produced such sons, and nearly every one of us have friends whose unrecorded heroism would swell the list, were it possible that all could be recognized and their...
...editorial on the examination system, the best thing in the number to an old editor--or at least the most comforting--is Douglas's farewell, written in "open and truculent satisfaction," patiently boosting the paper. The present board has done a good work; it has set up the shattered altar, and the smoke of the incense is sweet to the nostrils...