Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE TO FEEL a little bit sorry for those poor Fogg Museum administrators. They went out and rose more than $15-million, got told by the University brass that it wasn't good enough, and went and raised mother cool three million for the addition needed so desperately to alleviate their cramped space. Now the result of all that hard work is almost completed officials say the new Sackler museum, named after the man who chipped in seven million dollars for the project, will open next year but once again Fogg officials may be thwarted in their grand plans...
...reason is that Harvard wants to build a bridge that would connect the Fogg, at the edge of Harvard Yard, with the new building across the street. The proposal has met with objections from Cambridge residents and members of the City Council, who profess concern over the bridge's size, aesthetic qualities, and safety features...
...granite base is also coated with wax and needs little maintenance, according to Arthur Beale, Fogg Museum director of conservation Beale says that unlike marble, granite is resistant to acid rain and the elements...
...Acid rain is terribly destructive to bronze sculpture. It reduces metallic bronze to blue green copper sulfate and black copper sulfite," explains Marjorie B. Cohn, a Fogg conservator...
...dean of the School of Public Health was the fourth major appointment Bok has announced since the first of the year, all of which he has made in his characteristic independent style. And Bok is still yet to select two more high level administrators, a University treasurer and a Fogg Museum director...