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...Fogg Art Museum has recently received two beautiful water-color sketches by Ruskin, one of the Faido Pass, the other of an Alpine Pass and Convent. These drawings have been given to the Fogg Museum by friends of Professor C. H. Moore h.'90, the first director of the Museum, in recognition of his long service to the University...
...Arthur Clare forbids his daughter, Millicent, to marry the lover of her childhood, Raymond Mounchensey because the latter has had a reversal of fortune and picks out Frank Jerningham as a better match. Jerningham is, however, a true friend of Raymond and, when Millicent is sent to a convent to forget her old love, aids Mounchensey in his attempts to steal the girl away. The merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage bring the episode to a close. Though the devil hardly comes into contact with...
...reversal in the fortunes of Mounchensey, Sir Arthur Clare, Millicent's father, forbids the wedding, and decides upon a match with Frank Jeringham, who is Raymond's close friend. In order to make Millicent forget her love for Mounchensey, she is sent to spend a year in a convent, after which her marriage with Jeringham is to take place...
Other acquisitions are, "A General History of the Philippines," by Juan de la Concepcion, a work in fourteen volumes curiously bound and printed in 1790 at the Convent of our Lady of Loretto; and an album containing the portraits of students who attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts. The Album is interesting as almost all the portraits are of men who later became famous either as scholars or statesmen...
...route. Several representatives of the Association spoke against the petition, saying that if the parkway was built a strip of land 35 feet wide would have to be taken from the Association and that the loss of this land would destroy its chapel and interfere with the convent school and the future plans of the Association. They also claimed that there was no call for the parkway on the part of the public and that it would be unjust to take the necessary land...