Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from C. H. Taylor, Jr., '90; autograph letters of John Quincy Adams and of Ralph Waldo Emerson--from Dr. H. J. Keenan '94; class admission certificate of 1832, signed by Josiah Quincy--from H. B. Cushing '65; crew photographs of 1869 and 1874--from C. S. Gill; a fragment of the red silk graduation gown worn by William Dudley in 1704--from W. P. Parker; photograph of Henry W. Bellows--from T. C. Williams '76; programs of Harvard events, 1830-1840--from H. M. Rogers '62; fraternity medals--from Dr. J. E. Waitt '83 and Dr. J. W. Cummin...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
...annual report of the director of the Fogg Art Museum, enumerating recent additions, states that the collection of classical antiquities has been enriched by a fragment of a fourth century Greek marble head in the style of Scopas, a gift of E. P. Warren '83. Four examples of Gandhara sculpture were bought by a few friends and given to the Museum, and two others were received from B. A. G. Fuller '00. A gift of money for the collection of classical antiquities in memory of G. G. Van Rensselaer '96, enabled Dr. Chase to buy a Greek head...
...Wilson's telegram is in our midst, and yet few men seem aware of it. Or is it Harvard provincialism cropping out again, when one of the foremost citizens of the world, a statesman to whom our President offered the ambassadorship to the new Chinese Republic, draws only a fragment of the student body to his lectures...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently received from Mr. Edward P. Warren '83, of Lewes, England, an exceedingly beautiful fragment of a Greek head of the 4th century B. C., in the style of Scopas. The head is particularly interesting because of its resemblance to the famous Moleager now in the Fogg Museum, which is in the same style, being an early Greek copy of a lost original by Scopas...