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James, the son of William James, famous Harvard philosopher of the nineteenth century, was President of the CRIMSON in 1899. At present he is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
Colored reproductions of German paintings of the Middle Ages and of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also reproductions of medieval German prints make up the exhibits. All the expesses of the travelling collections this winter have been borne by the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation of New York City...
...criticized First Symphony of Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting...
Gifts constitute an increasingly important form of revenue. In the early nineteenth century they did not amount to more than several thousand dollars a year and often in the form of real estate. Records of last year, however, show gifts amounting to $1,400,000. Most gifts are given for a certain field, such as a museum or a type of research. Some are even more specific, such as the recent gift of Mr. Littauer for a School of Public Administration. The remainder are unrestricted, and are spent at the discretion of the University...
Nine paintings by the Dutch water color school of the nineteenth century and a small collection of Greek terra cotta figurines were acquisitions made during the year which deserve special attention. There were also nine terra cotta heads of the first or second century B. C., from Asia Minor, acquired by exchange with the Royal Museums of Brussels...