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...active work of the St. Paul's Catholic Club has been further facilitated this year by a gift from the Archbishop of Boston of the double house situated at 32 and 34 Mt. Auburn street, known as Newman House. Early in the year the attendance at the club meetings was slim; but as the House became better known and more comfortably furnished, a much larger attendance has been the rule, averaging about...
...photographs, including illustrations of Italian architecture and sculpture and works by the English Pre-Raphaelites. To the collection of slides 84 additions have been made, including illustrations of Greek sculpture, the discoveries at Delphi, and mosales in Ravenna. To the Museum library 37 volumes have been added by gift, purchase, and transfer from the University Library...
...general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes of engraved plates. There are also many works on numismatics, and others of interest in English and French literature. Mr. Ernest L. Gay at the same time added to the gift a number of volumes from his own library, consisting of books relating to Napoleon and of English poetical tracts of the eighteenth century...
Through Mr. H. Nelson Gay, of Rome, the Curator of Italian History of the Nineteenth Century, the Library has received another large addition to the Risorgimento collection. This important accession, consisting of about seven hundred volumes and pamphlets, is in part the gift of Mr. Gay and in part bought from Library funds, but was all selected by Mr. Gay in Rome. Another shipment is on the way from him and will contain about a thousand items, partly on this same subject and partly of a miscellaneous character. Most of these were bought by Mr. Gay at the recent sale...
...museum library has acquired 37 new volumes by purchase, gift and exchange. The library also contains about 39.370 photographs and 3,654 slides and lists and catalogues of works and galleries have been made. Increasing use of facilities in the museum has been made by members of the University for the purpose of study. The prints of the Randall and Gray collections have been catalogued, and are valuable to students...