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Members of the governing board of the Athenaeum were elected at a meeting last Sunday. They are: William W. Cancolmo '54, Peter R. Fisher '54, Frank I. Goodman '54, Mohammed A. Sheriff '54, James Robertson '54, Eric Klinger '54, and Miles Davis '54. The term of office is one semester...
...Harvard Athenaeum will debate a plan for limited NATO federation in its first meeting of the year, its Board of Governors announced last night. Wording of the topic before the sixty-member group will be: "Resolved, that in the interest of world security, the NATO nations should form a federation to develop a single policy on European affairs and a single armed force...
...cover picture is a reproduction of part of Gilbert Stuart's famous painting of George Washington known as the Athenaeum portrait. It is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is on permanent exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. (Stuart did one Washington portrait in 1794, but destroyed it. He felt that Washington's false teeth distorted his face, and Washington refused to remove them while sitting. A second portrait was done on commission from Senator William Bingham, who presented it to the Marquess of Lansdowne...
...Athenaeum portrait was begun in 1796, when Martha Washington persuaded her husband to sit for Stuart once more. But the portrait was never finished (see cut for full canvas view). Explanations vary as to why it was not finished. One version: Stuart promised to deliver the painting to Martha when completed, but purposely failed to finish the canvas so that he could keep it to make copies. He painted and sold at least 70 such copies, one of which now hangs at Mount Vernon...
After Stuart's death, the portraits of both Washington and his wife Martha were offered for sale, first to Congress and then to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. But there was no interest in buying them. In 1831 members of the Athenaeum raised subscriptions and bought both portraits...