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...that the Newark Museum remains the seat of the most sensible program of small museumship yet formulated in the U. S. This program took shape 30 years ago when the Museum was created as an adjunct to the Newark Public Library by an extraordinary librarian, the late John Cotton Dana. Dana's fame as a museum director has spread farther and wider ever since...
...tall, salty Vermonter who just missed being a preacher, John Cotton Dana became a surveyor for his health, then took charge of the public libraries of Denver, Springfield, Mass, and Newark (beginning in 1902). He believed in making books useful. He started the first children's library in the U. S., the first business branch libraries, the first extensive public files of periodicals and newspapers. On the fourth floor at Newark he set aside two rooms and a corridor for Art; in 1909 it was incorporated as a museum and received $10,000 from the town...
...Newark Museum was chartered not for awesome Art alone but also for the exhibition of works of science, history and technology. Newark was an industrial city and a satellite of Manhattan; its upper class even then was beginning to find homes in the country and entertainment in the metropolis. Dana made his museum of interest to working people and the middle class. In 1912 he got up the first industrial arts exhibition ever held in the U. S.; 1,300 items of Austrian and German craftsmanship. He arranged an exhibition of jewelry (something Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...John Osborne Sargent prize of $200 for the best metrical translation into English of a lyric poem of Horace. The Sales prize of $60 was given to Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 for his translation into Spanish of a passage from "Two Years Before the Mast," by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Thomas V. Healey '40 and Robert E. Tucker '41 received honorable mention...
...members who were just taken into the Clubs are: Dana W. Atchley, Jr. '39. Chester C. d'Autrement '41, Lester D. Berger, Jr. '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Joseph T. Knowles '42, Irving M. Shepard '39, Michael Levin '42, S. Vaughan ocC., Francis W. Scofield '40, Llewellyn Vorley '41, Richard D. Whittemore '41, William M. Wood, 3rd '42, and John H. Wulsin...