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Mr. Reisinger is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Department of German and the Germanic Museum, a position he also held in 1921-28, and 1936-44, and a member of the Visiting Committee to the University Library. His home is in New York City.
Other Rockefeller family gifts to Harvard during the last half century include funds for the Medical School, Divinity School, Fogg Art Museum, Germanic Museum, and Law School, as well as the University as a whole.
A millionaire once offered the University a large sum of money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the...
The original Germanic Museum was an abandoned gymnasium, an octagonal building which stood where the fire house is now. It was started largely through the enthusiasm of Kuno Francke, professor of German and the Museum's first curator, as a place for exhibits of specimens of Germanic art "from the...
In the second world war, the Museum fared a bit better. As someone said, "the Germanic Museum was the first bit of University territory to be occupied by the United States Army and the last to be evacuated." It served first as a school for army chaplains, and later as...