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...valuable and unique donations of Baron von Stael-Holstein to the Harvard collections as described in the news columns of this morning's CRIMSON, have an especial significance in that they enrich the shelves and panels of Widener and Fogg in a field which is comparatively untouched. Harvard is not alone in this; Oriental religion and literature is a book that a variety of influences have succeeded in keeping very nearly closed to the Occident. This gift is not the first sign that indicates Harvard, at least, is on the way to correcting the omission...
...symbolic of the present lack of knowledge of things Oriental that probably few Harvard students are aware of the fact that four of the most distinguished Sinologists in the world are now working in the University under the auspices of this organization. The gift of Baron von Stael-Holstein will be of the greatest value in its work of introducing America and the world to China...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently received a group of four gifts from Baron Alexander von Stael-Holstein which form one of the most important acquisitions of the year, according to an announcement made last night. The donor is professor of Sanskrit in the National University of Peking and, at present, a visiting professor at Harvard...
Baron von Stael-Holstein was the first foreigner ever admitted to the carefully guarded precincts of the Imperial palace of Peking. The court in which the collection was housed was the home of certain Dowager Empresses and of those concubines who had lost the royal favor...
...complete photographed copy of a manuscript, dating from the eighteenth century and containing 360 Chinese eulogies, composed by a Lamaistic archbishop in honor of these Chinese divinities is the second of Baron von Stael-Holstein's gifts to the Museum...