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Professor I. N. Hollis h. '99 contributes an account of the Soldiers Field improvements, and A. H. Lloyd '86 criticises Professor Munsterberg's expressions on "Psychology and Life." Sketches of the recipients of honorary degrees in 1899 and of Henry Lillie Pierce with portrait, and "The Crimson" by H. James, 2d, 1G., an appreciative account of the seriousness and levities of one University organization, complete the unusual articles of the magazine. Under the usual heading of the "The University," Professor Hart discusses the expansion of Harvard and the interesting academic and athletic situations, and F. E. Bissell '00 writes "Student...
Among the recent acquisitions of the Fogg Museum are three original paintings which were presented by Mr. Forbes. One of them is a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, the subject of which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection...
...paintings are: A Florentine Tabernacle, a really fine work in the time of the close of the 15th century, a portrait of a Procurator of St. Mark having the characteristics of the work of Tintoretto, A Madonna and child with saints by Benvenuto di Giovanni (Del Guasta), a Vienese painter of the 15th century, and an Adorazione of the school of Ferrara; perhaps by Lorenzo Costa...
There has recently been put on exhibition in the show cases of the College Library, an interesting manuscript receipt given in 1773 by John Singleton Copley, for fifty-six pounds paid him for the portrait of Nicholas Boylston which is now hanging in Memorial Hall. The document was presented to the College by Mr. J. H. Moriarty of Boston. Some rare Americana of colonial times-about thirty volumes in all-were bought at the sale of the Deane library in March. Most of them treat of Colonial history...
...fine examples of pure graver work on metal of a period when the more artificial methods of engraving had not come into vogue. They are the works of men who were themselves artists, and many of them are the original designs of the respective engravers. They are strong portraits, full of character, and are comparable in merit to the best portrait art of the Venetian and Flemish masters. Among the names of artists represented are: Drevet, Nauteuil, Duchange, Masson, and Morin...