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...This bequest, which includes several English panelled rooms of the sixteenth century as well as the contents of these rooms, was made to Harvard last spring by Mrs. Aaron Naumberg of New York, who with her husband was for a number of years an interested collector of the Fine Arts. The furnishings of the rooms comprises a fine tapestry, paintings, furniture, rugs, textiles and minor objects...
...been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives and other Flemish and Dutch works are also included in the bequest...
...Prize, for the student who has the highest scholastic average in his Freshman year, was awarded to Peter Shuebruk '33 who, like Munroe, also prepared at Exeter. His home address is Cohasset. Last year's Wendell recipient was H. L. Morrill '32. The prize was established in 1902 by bequest of the man whose name it bears, Jacob Wendell...
When Bernard Fay speaks before the Morris Gray Poetry Group, a larger number of students than ever before will have the opportunity of benefitting by the unusual bequest which has done so much for those interested in verse. Previously the audiences have been limited, both because a small group could accomplish more than a large, and because the meeting place does not permit a large gathering...
...January worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. by day, pored over books on rare oriental fabrics in his Bronx home by night. Out of his small salary, bit by bit, he spent between $30,000 and $40,000 for old Chinese court robes, Tibetan embroideries and similar textiles. This bequest to the Museum was his entire estate, was uncontested by his nephew, only heir. Last week Alan Priest, the Museum's Curator of Far Eastern art, said the fabrics were worth far more than Donor Paul's expenditures, also said the gift makes the Museum's collection...