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Original drawings by Whistler, Rodin, Turner, Van Dyck, Rubens, and others are included in the exhibition which will open tomorrow afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum. This is one of the most notable of exhibitions which has ever been held at the Museum, and it will continue till April...
...French section contains a notable group of eight Rodins, which prior to their exhibition here were shown for six months at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Italian school in its various phases is represented by Tintoretto, Correggio, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Parmigiano, Romano, and others. The most important drawing in the collection is one by Antonio Pollaiuolo--a masterly representation of human figures--part of the painter's cartoon for his engraving of "The Battle of Naked...
...Fogg Art Museum announces that on Tuesday afternoon it will open an exhibition of seventy original drawings. Examples have been gathered together of the English, American, German, French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and Italian schools. No attempt has been made at historical completeness, the sole purpose being to bring together significant examples of draughtsman, ship, irrespective of time or place of production...
While the Peace Conference is industriously concocting a number of bitter potions for Hunnish consumption, it would perhaps be pertinent for the University to ruminate upon the ultimate destiny of the Germanic Museum. Like the German "kultur" whence it sprang, the continuation of its raison d'etre is no longer desirable, unless, of course, we should decide to perpetuate the results of "kultur" in an up-to-date chamber of horrors. The problem of disposition must somehow be solved. At present it is but a monument of disputed architectural beauty, and of no practical benefit to its founders...
...Hambidge, of New York, will lecture in the Museum this afternoon at 4.30 on "The Mathematical Basis of Egyptian and Greek Designs." This lecture will be illustrated...