Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fogg Art Museum is now showing signs of completion. The floors are all laid and the woodwork polished. The heating, which is the hot air system, has been in use for some time and has proved very successful, as great care was taken with the ventilation. The heating apparatus was put in by John D. Clark of New York...
...question ought now to be seriously taken up, for it would seem that the sacrifice of Harvard's interests to those of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is not to be limited to the erection there of a wholly inadequate museum out of the funds provided by the Fogg bequest. The members of the Corporation practically make it evident through their statement in the Graduates' Magazine, that it is their intention not to place the Gray and Randall collections in the Fogg Art Museum at the time when their return to Harvard could be demanded...
Such action should not be allowed to pass without protest. Harvard's two large sets of engravings are the only very valuable works of art in her possession, and without them it is difficult to see how even the diminutive Fogg Museum is to be filled: certainly no expenditure in that direction by the University can be expected. If, as we are told, "At the Fogg Museum the Gray and Randall collections would take about one-third of the total space for exhibition and administration purposes," there is surely no way in which such space could be more suitably occupied...
...public statement with regard to the Fogg Art Museum which appeared in the Graduates' Magazine, two members of the Corporation suggest that it will probably not prove desirable to transfer Harvard's valuable collections of engravings from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to the newly erected one here. For this, two reasons are assigned: first, that the engravings are of most use where they are now; and second, that their accommodation in the Fogg Museum would necessitate the sacrifice of too much of the very limited space at disposal in that building. The strength of the first argument might...
Lack of space prevents the extended notice which these and the other articles deserve. The latter are "Robert Charles Winthrop," by William Everett '59; "The Fogg Museum," by M. Brimmer '49 and E. W. Hooper '59; "Music at Harvard," by Professor J. K. Paine; "Volunteer Charity Work," by R. Calkins '90; "Are Our Athletic Teams Representative?" by E. L. Conant '84; "The Bacteriological Laboratory," by H. C. Ernst '76; "Thomas Hollis, " by A. M. F. Davis...