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That same spirit echoed through Beacon Hill's venerable Athenaeum one snow-swept evening this past winter as more than 500 Bostonians gathered to launch a campaign to raise $125,000 to "save the Shaw." John D. O'Bryant, black president of the Boston school committee, quoted Washington's 1897 speech and added: "In all truth, we have been slow to learn the lesson of that...
...chaos has reached such a pitch that Boston is suing the Smithsonian and the Boston Athenaeum (a historic library that really owns the works) to prevent the sale. Ted Kennedy flew quickly into town (from Washington, a city he evidently wants to spend more time in) to say he doesn't want the paintings to go to Washington. (What's good enough for Ted isn't good enough, for George, evidently. George died without ever seeing the national capital he helped plan...
...century and a half, the portrait of George and a matching Stuart of Martha have belonged to the Athenaeum, a private library in Boston-and, in patriotic spirit at least, to all Bostonians. So when the Athenaeum, strapped for money, recently announced the sale of the pair to Washington's National Portrait Gallery for $5 million, the outburst rivaled the shot heard round the world...
Washington returned the volley. "This is the National Portrait Gallery and these are the premier national portraits," said Michael Collins, under secretary of the Smithsonian, which operates the Portrait Gallery. "They are made for each other." He denied leading a "raiding party" on Boston, pointing out that the Athenaeum approached the Washington museum when the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which has borrowed and displayed the works for the past 103 years, could offer only $1 million for them...
Caltech alumni give much credit for their school's achievements to its small size, which allows scientists in different disciplines to know each other well. Frequently, interdisciplinary research projects are first sketched over lunch at the Athenaeum, an elegant faculty club with a high-beamed Spanish-style ceiling at the campus' east end. Academically, the school deliberately remains narrower than, say, M.I.T., which is noted for such nonscientific departments as linguistics and economics. At Caltech the focus is on engineering and basic research in the "hard" sciences, especially physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry and seismology. Nuts-and-bolts technology gets little...