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...exhibit at the Fogg Museum this week are casts of a part of a series of stone capitals, which, set upon marble shafts, supported the apae and ambulatory of the Abbey Church of Cluny in Burgundy. They were preserved at the time of destruction of the Abbey Church, and are now in the Municipal Museum at Cluny...
...capitals were one of the most interesting parts of the sculptured decoration of the great Abbey Church of Cluny and have been the centre of an archeological controversy with regard to their dating. It now appears from internal evidence and from texts that they were carved during the early years of the construction of the building, that is, after 1088, when the work was begun, and before 1095 when the first dedication, by Pope Urban II, occurred. Originally they had square impost blocks with a spreading moulding, the lower corners of which were laid immediately above the upper corners...
...casts are the property of the Fogg Museum but were made in connection with studies and excavations at the site of the Abbey Church which have been undertaken by Mediaeval Academy of America...
Another of the extremely valuable copies in the collection is the first edition of the "Martyrs" of John Foxe, entitled as follows: "Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persocutions and terrible troubles, that have been wrought and practised by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme nowe present." It has the original stamped vellum binding...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...