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Requests for college men qualified to lead discussion groups have been sent by the Burroughs Newboys Foundation to the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House.
At present, Burroughs is conducting an extensive study of the style of Rembrandt and his pupils, as shown by the X-Ray. An exchange of these shadowgraphs with institutions in Europe has already begun and will be continued during the coming year.
With this information, it is frequently possible to determine frauds or to find out who actually painted a picture. "In the paintings," Burroughs said, "there are many slight variations in the way the paint is applied and the type of stroke the painter uses.
For several years Alan Burroughs '20, Lecturer on Fine Arts, has been taking or collecting these X-Rays, both in this country and abroad. At present he has over 150 works of Rembrandt, representative works of other great European artists, and about 350 famous American paintings.
Burroughs has photographed many of the leading American works about which there has been doubt as to who the painter was. In some cases, however, he has been unable to convince the experts that he was right, for the X-Ray is a fairly recent development, and there is tendency...