Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Emeritus Kuno Francke, Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, said: "It is a shock to me to hear that LeBaron R. Briggs is going to resign. I cannot think of Harvard College without him. He is inextricably interwoven with everything about her, and there are traces of him everywhere in her precincts. The Yard, the River, the Stadium, Sanders Theatre, the Faculty Room, Sever, the Union, daily themes, composition, football dinners, probation, prizes, scholarships, dropped Freshmen, goodies, boardwalks, the CRIMSON, the Advocate, the Lampoon, regulations and irregularities, grinds and loafers, Gentile and Jew, hour exams and Class Day--what...
...tinted plaster casts, replicas of famous examples of German artistic work, which are the prizes of the Germanic Museum, will be taken as models by the Germans. They plan to devote a large amount of space to the exhibition of such casts, which, the article points out, the Germanic Museum was the first to use successfully. Many of the casts will be modelled directly on those at present in the University...
Professor Emeritus Kuno, Francke Litt, Hon, 12 and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, in commenting on the article, said...
...When I was in Berlin in 1923 I visited the grounds of the huge museum which is now under construction, and was told that one entire ward of the building will be devoted to plaster reproductions of architectural and sculptural subjects in the style of those in our local museum...
...fact that we, here is Cambridge, have copied German masterpieces so skillfully as to attract Germans to this country to recast our reproductions of their own originals, speaks well for the work of the University Germanic museum, and for further artistic cooperation between Germany and the United States...