Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Page one carries the announcement of Harvard's free loan of the Stadium for the game with Stanford year after next. In making this loan Harvard has gone considerably beyond the usual limits of intercollegiate generosity. On the financial side it means the sacrifice of her share of gate receipts that will mount well up into the hundred thousands. And as Dartmouth usually counts on the Harvard game as by far her largest source of athletic revenue, the additional income from the Stanford game will mean a great deal in the further development of athletics at Dartmouth...
...Queen-Mother Emma of Holland, 70 years old, the proud, aristocratic parent of plump, reigning Queen Wilhelmina. She stood alone in a room of the Royal Academy in London and looked at 51 browntoned Rembrandts, part of the magnificent loan exhibition of Dutch art which has delighted London since January (TIME, Jan. 21)?sequel to the Flemish exhibition of the year before. Attendants kept a curious crowd outside locked doors. When Queen Emma heard of this she at once commanded, "Let the people in! They must not be deprived of these things...
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. (with $4,581,920 in the call loan market); $1,528,782 as against...
...directors of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, in attempting to popularize fine arts, have recently adopted a highly commendable experiment to loan paintings to students to decorate their rooms. It is their contention that real beauty of a painting can better be found while observing it in one's own rooms in surroundings of comparative comfort, rather than in the severe background of a museum...
Only one thing is lacking to complete the renascence of art appreciation that is taking Cambridge by storm, only one thing to add to the Fogg Museum, The Hound and 'Horn, the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and the loan library of pictures recently instituted by the Fogg...a library of music records. Some kind benefactor of the University would give great pleasure and the means of further study to Harvard students if he established a fund for the purchase of the symphonic and chamber music pieces which are now being so excellently recorded. A room in Paine Hall might...