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...cornerstone of the new Germanic Museum, which will be situated on Kirkland street, between Frisbie place and Divinity avenue, was laid on Saturday noon by Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, through whose gift of $250,000 the building of the museum was realized, was unable to attend the exercises and was represented by his wife and his son-in-law, Mr. Hugo Reisinger, of New York...
...Club then sang three of the old German hymns, "Machet die Thore Weit," "Ein Feste Burg," and "Das ist der Tag des Herrn." After the singing of the hymns the guests went to the site of the new museum, where the cornerstone was ready to be lowered. Ambassador von Bernstorff performed the ceremony of laying the stone, and then stepped forward to address the guests. He stated that he deemed it a great honor to be present at the exercises and he thanked Harvard University for this honor, conveying also the personal congratulations of the German Emperor and the German...
President Lowell then presented Mrs. Busch with the silver trowel which Ambassador von Bernstorff had used...
President Lowell was toastmaster at the luncheon given to Ambassador von Bernstorff after the exercises in the Assembly Room of the Union, where speeches were made by Professor Francke, Ambassador von Bernstorff and Mr. Reisinger...
...Luncheon for Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States; in Union; under auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club, the Deutscher Verein, and the Germanic Museum Association...