Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...collector, who died a few weeks ago at Neuilly, France, while serving with the Red Cross. The will, which was made on March 4, 1918, was filed in Boston Tuesday; it provides for an additional hundred thousand dollars to be given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The gift to the Fogg Museum is to be expended under the direction of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Arthur Pope, and Edward W. Forbes, all of Cambridge...
...roll was presented by William Coolidge Lane '81 in behalf of the Memorial Society and accepted by President Lowell, who thanked the Society for the gift, and said...
...ancient Chinese painting has been recently added to the exhibits at the Fogg Art Museum through the gift of Charles L. Freer of Detroit, a collector of Chinese art and an authority on the subject. It is a large picture entitled "Ancient Pines and Rocks," attributed to Li Cheny, a master of the Sung Dynasty. It was painted in the period when the feudal regime was at its height and shows in a marked degree the influence of that regime. According to authorities on the subject, the work was composed...
...last but not least Mr. Tucker, and say to them: here is Harvard University, a poor sort of institution at best, but just now utterly ruined by the lamentable uncertainty as to the educational program which it is to adopt for the future; take it; take it as a gift, and do with it what you will, so long as you write no longer--would they then leap to the opportunity and reorganize us all, or would they become strangely silent, thinking much and saying nothing more...
When Evert Wendell died on August 27, 1917, in the hospital at Neuilly, France, he left his entire literary collection to the Library. The present instalment is the first advantage that has been taken of the gift. The collection, which still remains at the disposal of the University, is very extensive and valuable...