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Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
Students in Archaeology will give a gallery talk this afternoon in the Balcony Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 3 o'clock in connection with the Etruscan Art Exhibit. The speakers, from Harvard and Radcliffe, are students of George H. Chase, Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. One of the pieces to be shown is the famous Morgan statuette of a girl which has been lent by the Metropolitan Museum in New York...
...collection is to be exhibited is the Balcony Room, on the second floor, until Sunday, December 31. There will be a gallery talk on Etruscan art in the exhibition room on Friday from 1 to 4 o'clock...
...outstanding pieces is a bronze statue of an Etruscan girl of the sixth century B.C., loaned by the Metropolitan Museum, and formerly in the Morgan collection. Comparable is this statuette is a later figure of an other Etruscan girl, in the Hoppin collection of the Fogg Museum...
Among the group of gold objects is a gold fibula or safety pin, decorated with a ram's head, whose Etruscan filigree work is of the greatest rarity. Of equal prominence is a series of gold dress ornaments used on a costume to the dead...