Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That America will compete in the Olympic games to be held at Antwerp, Belgium, in August, 1920, was decided at a recent dinner held at the New York Athletic Club when the American Olympic Committee conferred with Colonel Osterreith, Belgian Director-General of Sports...
...peaceful Belgium was protected by a promise, but, unlike the Iron Chancellor who was a German and judged others by himself--Belgium looked for an attack from nowhere. She rested in false security, as everyone knows. Her government was riddled with German espionage; the forts surrounding Antwerp had been electrically wired by a German firm, so that when the stege later came, the wiring was worse than useless. Practically every high government official took orders from the Williamstrasse...
Chief of the Bureau of Needy Children and Infant Mortality is Dr. William P. Lucas '00. Richard C. Cabot '89 occupies the positions of Director of Medical Centres in the Bureau of Refugees and Relief. Edward E. Hunt '09, who acted as delegate for the city and province of Antwerp from 1914 to 1916, and was director of civilian relief in the American Red Cross for Italy last year, is at the head of the Bureau of Reconstruction and Relief. On the Editorial and Historical Division, Barton Blake '05 acts as chief and included among his assistants is Lewis...
...Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memlic and Albert Bonts. Significant in the Renaissance group are examples by Marcellus Koffermans, Girard David, Quentin Metsys and Jan Gossart--called Mabuse. Several of the so-called minor Flemish artists are represented by the anonymous Master of the Legend of St. Ursula; the Antwerp Master from Hoogstraaten, Joachim Patinir, Joose van Cleef, Colun de Loter, and the Franco-Fleming, Jan Prevost...
...Fogg Art Museum is now showing as a temporary loan a beautiful Flemish triptych, attributed to Marcellus Koffermans, who, in 1549, was admitted as free master into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. One of his paintings, the "Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine," is dated 1568, and it is likely that the triptych, now on exhibition was painted at about that time. Other pictures by the master are to be found in the Museums of Brussels and Berlin...