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...news that Princeton is about to erect a new Art School ought to awaken in the university some similar plan of advancing this important branch of study. Harvard has very little to boast of in the way of art collections if we except the plaster casts placed without much show o system in the various recitation rooms, the art publications in the library, and the very meagre collection of models and drawings owned by the Art Department. The treasures treasured in the rooms of the Harvard Art Club cannot with justice be counted among Harvard's collections...
Michigan University is to receive the sculptor Rogers's entire art collection after his death. It includes over 100 pieces in plaster and marble...
...explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door was partly blown open, the ceiling was sprung, and the wall on the entry displaced about six inches, and about 20 feet of plastering so damaged as to have to be torn down immediately. All the plastering in the room was shaken loose, and the wood work, paper and ornaments were badly scorched. Everything was in great disorder in the room when the CRIMSON reporter entered it; masons were engaged in tearing down plaster...
...nasty look down through its comely Mansard roof, and through its thick walls of brick and mortar. Thou knowest its hideous incompleteness within. There is no floor upon which to walk through its lovely corridors or its magnificent halls, no winding stairs by which to ascend its heights, no plaster to hide its grinning walls, no seats, no bell, no furnace, no musical instrument, no library...
...kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign universities the benefit of the collection by sending many plaster casts to them...