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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sketches for the Julia Amory Appleton Fellowship in Architecture are to be made in Walter Hastings Hall today. The final drawings in the competition are due on April 7. This fellowship was established in 1906 by Mr. Charles F. McKim, of New York, through a gift of $20,000 as the permanent foundation for a travelling fellowship in architecture, to be called in memory of his wife the Julia Amory Appleton Fellowship, with an annual stipend...
From Dr. Denman Waldo Ross '75 (in addition to the gift of a very large collection of fine Japanese prints) 10 watercolor drawings by Dodge MacKnight; three watercolors, one by J. M. W. Turner; five important Japanese screens; two important Japanese paintings; one splendid Chinese painting of a Corean gentleman; and important examples of Chinese porcelain...
...were among the other who at the time of their death willed their own volumes to the College Library. The addition of Professor Muensterberg's books will help to increase the size of that collection which increases in historical importance as years pass. President Lowell's acceptance of the gift represents the feeling of gratitude felt by both students and Faculty. Far better than bronze or stone, it will be a living memorial to Professor Muensterberg's quarter of a century of faithful effort and accomplishment...
...gift of $20,000 from Mrs. George Putnam was announced to establish a fund in memory of her brother, James Jackson Lowell '58, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library...
Such a man was Professor Wendell. He always taught most effectively when least conscious or deliberate in his teaching. With his flawless taste in letters, hew was the surest possible guide to his students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist...