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...Hind, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give a lecture on "Portraits," the fourth in a series on Rembrandt, tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This lecture is open to all members of the University...
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Continuing with his regular Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Professor Hind will speak on "Portraits", "Landscapes", and then deliver a concluding lecture to sum up his course on Rembrandt. These three talks will be given on February 11, 18, and 25, respectively in the New Lecture Hall, Wednesday evenings at 5 o'clock. The lecture scheduled for February 4 has been cancelled...
...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...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...