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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also received, as an indefinite loan, a small pinnacle representing St. Agnes, attributed to Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The little picture has much of the charm of the early Sienese School, though its some what rough execution does not compare favorably with the best work of Lorenzetti. It is the oldest painting in the Fogg Museum. Lorenzetti was active between 1323 and 1348, and this painting, even if executed by one of his pupils, was probably painted before 1350. The next earliest painting to this is a picture attributed to Spinello Aretino, which was probably painted in the year...
...Harvard man, from the oldest alumnus to the youngest Freshman, will find things to delight him in the September number of the Graduates' Magazine. Perhaps the newly registered undergraduate is wary of an publication which, like the starred courses in the Catalogue, seem "primarily for graduates." If so, he will be happily surprised as well as pleased to read the lively summary of 1911's Student Life and Athletics, the story of the New London race, and the sketch of the International Games. But he will feel in all, in illustrations and in text, in biographical sketches, in essays...
...long been looking forward. It is gratifying to note that the man who thus links his name with those of the great benefactors of Harvard University is a German by birth, and that the motive of his generous action has been the wish to establish at the oldest American university an institution which shall bring to view the best that German artistic genius has given to the world...
...meet Oxford and Cambridge in an international meet in London. The significance of this event is not so much in showing which of the two countries can produce the better track team, but rather as one more link in the chain of friendly relations which bind two of the oldest educational institutions of this country with two of the greatest in England and in the world. The positions that Harvard and Yale secured in the intercollegiate meet show that their combined strength is by no means the greatest on this side, and it is likewise probable that the two English...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the second oldest learned society in the United States, will hold a meeting in the Geological Section of the University Museum this afternoon and evening. The afternoon session will be devoted to an exhibit in which members of the Natural History Departments of the University will show and describe a number of specimens, instruments, etc. , mostly illustrative of current work. The exhibit will consist of 32 parts, representing the departments of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy and Petrography, Geology and Geography, and the Peabody Museum. One of the most interesting features will be the seismograph records...