Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident in even his most casual work...
Jose L. Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, will give the keynote address this morning in Fogg Art Museum, to the group sponsored by the School of Design and its Alumni Association...
...four chalices which will be used in the service are kept in Fogg Museum. Records there indicate that the Corporation voted on November 20, 1814, "that the President (John Thornton Kirkland), Dr. Lathrop (John Lathrop, Secretary to the Board of Overseers), and Professor Hedge (Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity) be authorized to procure a service of plate suitable for the Communion at the expense of the Corporation." New silver plate and glass cups were recently purchased for use in addition to the historic vessels...
...Fogg has thus spread itself as thin as it can. Further ideas have sometimes failed to materialize and others would result in certain overextension of the Museum's faculties. In the first category is the support of undergraduate painting. Coolidge has experimented with it from time to time but response has never justified the drain on space and staff...
That it can only be an idea is perhaps indicative of the problems that Fogg has yet to solve: the staff limitations above all, and the financial troubles that lay behind them. The there are many obligations and the unique responsibilities.JOHN P. COOLIDGE...