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...exhibition of French painting of the Eighteenth Century was opened Sunday at the Fogg Art Museum and will continue for two weeks, ending March 2. There are about 30 pictures, the majority lent by Felix Wildenstein, Paris. The other contributors are Sir Joseph Duveen and the California palace of Legion of Honor...
Most of the contributions have been lent by Felix Wildenstein of Paris, whose galleries in New York have also sent several works by Pablo Picasso to the exhibition of the famous French artist now being held at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. Three, however, including the celebrated "Fete Champetre" of Watteau, have been loaned by Sir Joseph Duveen, while yet another has been sent from the California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...activities of Mason Hammond '25, head tutor of Lowell House, have succeeded in procuring for the common rooms of the House an interesting collection of oriental objects d'art, which have been lent by residents and by the Fogg Art Museum for an indefinite period. In the large common room are among other exhibits, three Japanese prints dating from the first contact with modern Europe. They include a sketch on an English lady of uncertain age, a soldier, and the portrait of a Yankee skipper. In the Tutor's common room a sculptured head, collected during the first Harvard expedition...
Governments often come to the aid of their country's industries. Seldom do industries render direct financial aid to their governments. Last week four great electric corporations - Siemens-Schuckert, German General Electric, Bergmann Electrical Co. and Brown Boveri-lent $12,000,000 cash to the German State Railways, to electrify roads in the south of Germany (particularly the Augsburg-Stuttgart line) and incidentally reduce unemployment by providing work for 10,000 men for a year and a half...
...Manhattan, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Manhattan. Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent and at Thanksgiving. They represented all major Protestant denominations and all parts of the U. S. None was paid. Singers and musicians, however, were paid?$67,247.23. In the daily devotional programs they performed 736 hymns taken from 19 different hymnals. They reached from ten stations (Hymn-Sing) to 75 (Sunday...