Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze...
...Simmons College, Boston, back of the Art Museum on Huntington Avenue, 835 girls are studying to become private secretaries. Later they will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...
Died. Guy Lowell, 56, able architect, cousin of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, suddenly; in Madeira. He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York County Court House, gardens for John Pierpont Morgan...
...Herder as Critic", Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German...
...Early Christian and Byzantine Art, other than Architecture", Professor Fdgell, New Fogg Museum, Fine...