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...display in Fogg Art Museum now are selected drawings by old masters, including examples from the Museum collection, the Charles A. Loeser bequest, acquisitions from the Oppenheimer sale held in London last year, and loans from Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus. Also being shown are some English water colors, and a new permanent exhibition of Near Eastern Art. Included in this latter exhibit are Persian Miniatures and pottery, Syrian glass and Graeco-Roman pottery...
Though the problem of handling the Nieman Bequest has by no means been solved, it must be admitted that Dr. Conant has acted wisely in his decision to award fellowships to newspapermen who have had three years of practical experience. After consultation with leading newspapermen in Boston and elsewhere, Dr. Conant has placed the burden of selection on a small committee who will offer journalists from all over the country the experience of an eight months' study at Harvard...
...gifts for special purpose bring with them new responsibilities. Sometimes these responsibilities are such that the University accepts them with a heavy heart and some reluctance; in rare cases it refuses them altogether. But the recent Nieman bequest, though it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community. We are asked to expend the money in such a why as to 'promote and elevate the standards of journalism,' using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad; there...
...Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late Ambassador's younger son, received the choicest journalistic bequest of the year-control of his father's prospering papers...
Without announcing the bequest, Letters from Iceland will leave to readers a closer understanding of real poets than could be reached by means of confessions, revelations, or "whole truths...