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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum received during the second half of the academic year 1916-17 many loans, gifts, and acquisitions. Some of the most important of these are listed below. 229 books have been added to the library, and 414 photographs and 2119 lantern slides have been given to the Museum...
From Edward D. Bettens '73, an unfinished historical painting, "Monmouth before James II", by John Singleton Copley; from friends of the Museum, a Sienese panel, a "Nativity", attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti; from Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, Greek torso of a boy; from J. Pierpont Morgan '89, 11 volumes of reproductions of drawings in the Uffizi; and from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 158 photographs of prints...
...addition to these gifts the Museum has acquired by purchase a water color drawing, "The Matterhorn", by John Ruskins; and a head pencil drawing, "Edinburgh", by J. M. W. Turner...
From a friend of the Museum, various 16th and 17th century velvets; and drawings by Wyant, Martin, and Bone...
...Museum of Fine Arts announced yesterday that its Trustees had voted to grant free admission "to instructors and students in Universities, Colleges, Normal Schools, and similar institutions. Those who wish to avail themselves or this privilege should send their names to the Director of the Museum. Tickets will then be given them at the door or mailed them on receipt of a stamped and addressed envelope. For purposes of identification, students applying in person should present their own cards or a letter stamped at the college office...