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Through the kindness of Sir Joseph Duveen of London, art collector and son of the well-known Dutch-English art dealer and benefactor, Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, who died in 1908, there is now at the Fogg Art Museum a painting by Titian, which will remain there as a loan for a few days. Professor Arthur Pope of the Fine Arts Department will give a talk on the painting at 3.30 o'clock Monday afternoon...
...Rockefeller Hospital, Peking. He was about to return home after having delivered a series of lectures at the Union Medical College. Famed author of The Care and Feeding of Children* Dr. Holt, nearly 70, was recognized by the profession as an authority, and by the public as a benefactor. "Few doctors have held so high a record in the saving of lives" is an opinion accepted in the medical world. His famous book, dedicated to "The Young Mothers of America," is in the nature of a catechism. It asks and answers such questions as these: "At what...
...beautiful fifth century B.C. Greek head, which had been previously loaned for exhibition was given to the Museum permanently by an anomymous benefactor, and a loan of an early Madonna of the tweifth or thirteenth century was received from Mr. John Nicholas Brown...
...number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
...giving up the attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company to take it. Even then it had a scant sale, until its merit was recognized in England, and in a few years he became the American best known abroad. To come nearer home, our late benefactor, Henry L. Higginson, in early life studied music for several years in Europe, but finding himself unfitted for a musical career, came home, shortly before the Civil War. Severely wounded as a cavalry officer in the Army of the Potomac, he recovered only as it closed. He then tried...