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While in Rome he played an important part in uniting the separate institutions of the Academy of Art and the School of Classical Studies to form the American Academy. The Academy is now under the directorship of Professor J. B. Carter of Princeton, succeeding Mr. Frank Millet, the artist, who perished in the Titanic disaster...
...professor in the University, one who attended the Law School, and ten who are holders of degrees from the University. Of the eight graduates, two have died since the list was compiled, but it is proposed to retain their names. They are Francis Davis Millet '69 and Professor Horace Howard Furness '54. President Eliot, though he has been urged several times to accept membership, has repeatedly declined that honor...
...White Star line 1635 persons perished in the foundering of the Titanic at 2.20 o'clock last Monday morning. Of this number, who lost their lives, at least three who distinguished themselves by their courageous conduct were Harvard men: Colonel John Jacob Astor ex-'88, and Francis Davis Millet '69, both of New York, and H. E. Widener '07, of Philadelphia...
Francis Davis Millet '69 won universal recognition as an artist and through his great ability he occupied a most prominent place in art circles. He was the secretary of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the American Federation of Arts. At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Mr. Millet was the director of decorations and the director of functions. In recognition of his services in the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, he received the decorations of the military crosses of Russia and Roumania. In 1900 Mr. Millet was elected to the Legion of Honor...
...print collection an unusually large number of additions have been made. Mr. Paul J. Sachs '00 has given Rembrandt's "Great Jewish Bride," the "Sheperdess Knitting," by Millet, sixty-one etchings by Jacquemart, and fifty-one etchings by Herman A. Webster. "The Furnace Nocturne," by Whistler came from an anonymous giver. Mr. Francis Bullard '86 presented the "Clyde" form Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and Lupton's copy of the "Mill near the Grand Chartreuse." Thirteen etchings by James D. Smillie were received form his son, Mr. James C. Smillie. The Nocturne, a lithotint by Whistler was purchased from the income...