Word: museum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Forbes '95, has recently imported and deposited in the Fogg Museum a number of original works of art of considerable importance. They comprise three pieces of Greek marble sculpture and four Italian paintings of the Florentine, Venetian, Science and Ferraress schools...
...your letter of the 4th instant, in which you request information as to the whereabouts of the colors and cup presented to the cruiser "Harvard" by the students of Harvard University during the war with Spain, I have to inform you that these articles are now in the museum at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Very Respectfully, [Signed] JOHN D. LONG, Secretary...
...Jacob H. Schiff of New York, offered the sum of $25,000 toward the erection of a Semitic Building at Harvard provided an equal sum from other sources could be secured by July 1 last. The object of this offer was to provide a suitable home for the Semitic Museum, the departmental library, and the Semitic instruction. At present the museum collections are in the Peabody Museum, the library in Sever Hall, and the instruction divided between several buildings, In asking for contributions toward the enterprise, the curator of the Semitic Museum set forth its many advantages to members...
...provided the other subscribers would allow their contributions to "go to the fund from which purchases for the collection are being made." This offer was accepted without dissent, and the University will accordingly have the desired Semitic Building in addition to $19,240 for increasing the museum collections...
Alger-Coffin, Zool. Lect. Room, 5th floor University Museum...