Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the War's destruction, for instance, the Fogg's library is far more important than it had been as a reference source, and is now markedly superior to any in Germany. The last decade has also witnessed an increased consciousness of American methods. For the first time the Museum is now training personnel for such countries as Egypt, Pakistan, Spain, and Holland. Brazil has also asked for advice on its state collection...
...manifestation of the visual arts appreciation has been the response to Fogg's exhibitions. One on French drawing attracted nearly 20,000 people in two weeks, and another on Ancient Art drew some 3,000 on the last Sunday of the exhibition. The Museum is therefore producing major shows like the recent Reubens exhibit, in which all but one or two of the Reubens drawings and oil sketches in the country were shown, with some degree of regularity, usually one a year...
...Fogg is unable to cater to the increased demands as well as it might wish, the root of the problem is of course financial. While the University is in a position to meet some of its inflationary expenses by receiving large grants from bodies like the Ford Foundation, the Fogg, as Coolidge says, still "depends to a fantastic degree on endowment and individual contributions." The Government, the foundations, and industry provide little support for the humanities, preferring to allocate their grants to universities, hospitals, and the sciences...
This perhaps is one reason for the great upsurge in private donations to the Fogg. In the past seven years, individual contributions have risen some 75 percent. The figure is misleading, however, because it represents a rise over donations during and just after the War, when Fogg was of necessity quite inactive. Even so, there are fewer large contributors today than ever, probably because the Museum depends fundamentally on what Coolidge terms the "New York-Boston axis," an old part of the country where there are not many oil fortunes made overnight...
...Fogg is essentially a private organization, hit hard like all of its kind by the inflation of the American economy, and torn by obligations on every side. Many of the obligations are long-term ones, with the result that the Museum's ability to meet them can be measured only imperfectly at best. Coolidge expresses his own working philosophy of the situation: "when understaffed, you do the things that produce the quickest results...