Word: museum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be two talks at the Fogg Museum of Fine Arts next Sunday afternoon, both of which will be open to the public as well as to members of the University. The first of these will be given by Mr. Edward J. Hipkiss in Class Room A at 3 o'clock. He will take for his subject "The New England House of the Mid-Eighteenth Century...
Miss Millet will be at the Museum at 2.30 o'clock to act as a guide for enlisted men who care to visit the collections...
...gift of $100,000 has been left to the University in the will of Hervey Edward Wetzel '11 of Detroit, Michigan. This is to be expended "for a few important works of art for the Fogg Museum," under the direction of three members of the Department of Fine Arts;--Edward W. Forbes '95, Dr. Denman W. Ross '75, and Arthur Pope...
Although modestly worded, this is probably the most important single gift that the Fogg Museum has ever received, for the bequest also include half of Mr. Wetzel's notable collection of the art of the near East and Orient. Another advantage is the fact that the principal of the gift may be expended as well as the interest...
...where he had been serving as a Red Cross executive. Throughout his life he had devoted himself to the cause of art, being particularly distinguished for his Oriental collections. Just previous to the war he was for a while Curator of Persian and Mohammedan Art at the Boston Art Museum...