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Professor David Gordon Lyon, S.T.D. '01, Curator of the Semitic Museum of the University, wrote the article which is herewith reprinted in part from the Alumni Bulletin. The handicap the museum is now under due to lack of funds must be overcome by voluntary donations from members of the University and its alumni...
Beginning on January 31, the Harvard Semitic Museum will thereafter be open on Sunday afternoons. This event justifies a brief account of the character and significance of the Museum...
...Harvard Semitic Museum is a collection of objects coming from or relating to the Semitic stock of peoples. The chief representatives of this stock are Arabians, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. The Semites were among the earliest peoples to rise to the state of civilized life. They have given to the world the alphabet, monotheism, three great religions, and three great books of religions. So vital and pervasive have these contributions been that, without a knowledge of their source, a large part of modern civilization is unintelligible...
...Museum building is the gift of Jacob Henry Schiff, Esq., of New York. The contents were given by Mr. Schiff and a large number of other friends, living mainly in Boston and vicinity...
...drawing is entitled "A Woman at Prayer" and is considered by connoisseurs to be one of the best the artist has yet produced. It was through the courtesy of the "Friends of the Fogg Art Museum," who have made possible the acquisition of many of the finest pieces in the Museum, that this drawing was obtained...