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...collection of reproductions of work by German goldsmiths and silver-smiths recently received at the Germanic Museum will be placed on exhibition for the first time today. This collection, which includes about seventy galvano-plastic copies, is arranged in three cases; the first case containing works of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the second chiefly those of the seventeenth century, and the third those of the eighteenth century...
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 many of them went to Turkey, where they retained the Spanish language through writing it in Hebrew characters. From the descendants of these Jews it is possible to gain a far more accurate knowledge of fifteenth century Spanish than can be obtained in Spain. Professor Wiener spent the summer of 1898 in Turkey, investigating this old Spanish, and collected a number of songs which he will read and discuss tonight...
...Germanic Museum has received in shipment from a committee of German artists and scientists interested in the Museum, the collection given in Germany of copies of the best work of Nuremberg and Augsberg goldsmiths and silver smiths, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In the collection are imitations of about fifty-five cups, basins and dishes of various designs, many of them of great beauty, and historic interest. The copies are made of bronze, and are gilded and silvered by an electroplating process. They will be put on exhibition about February 15, but will be stored in Robinson Hall...
...fifteenth annual handicap meet of the Boston Athletic Association, to be held in Mechanics Hall, Boston, on the evening of Saturday, February 13, a relay team, representing the University will run a race with Pennsylvania. Each man on the team will run three laps, a distance of 390 yards. Class relay teams will be entered to run for the class championship. A number of men will also compete in each of the various other events...
Professor M. H. Morgan gave the third of his series of lectures on the history of classical studies yesterday afternoon in Harvard 1. His subject was "The Revival of Learning in the Fifteenth Century." Professor Morgan led up to his discussion by a short summary of the men who were the forerunners of the change. The Renaissance, he said, was a general resurrection of European intellect. At first, foreign teachers only undertook to instruct the people in the classics, but later the Italians themselves took up the work. The influence of the Medici was great. Not only manuscripts, but even...