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Inventor is Robert Elkan Naumburg, 39, Cambridge, Mass, mechanical engineer, who made his present modest fortune inventing textile machinery and automobile accessories...
...technically through the Friends of the Library. It has many Friends who are not "Friends." These outside gifts are usually for some specific subject, or perhaps for the purchase of some special collection. Some of them are annual, such as the gifts for twenty-five years from Walter W. Naumburg '89, for Shakspere, and of James Loeb '88, for labor papers (twenty-six years). Others are occasional but pretty constant, as, for example, the many gifts from John B. Stetson, Jr. '06, for Portuguese history and literature, (including the great Palha library); Professor Paul J. Sachs '00, for books...
...Fogg Museum of Art there are several exhibitions of worth. The paintings of the Naumburg Bequest, including Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man", El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple," and "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, are perhaps the most important. There are also exhibitions of nineteenth century watercolors, Rembrandt etchings, and Old Master drawings, as well as the new loan exhibition of objects excavated at Ur by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of Pennsylvania...
...Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again it may be pointed out that no other museum anywhere contains as full a reproduction of this extraordinary group of monuments. And similar things may be said of our representation of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture. For I know of no other museum which exhibits the work...
...newly-established Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music have been awarded for next year to Virgil Thomson '22, who this year has been assisting in several music courses in addition to his college work, and to Melville M. Smith '20, who now holds the Elkan Naumburg Fellowship and is studying in Paris...