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...museum has already-some valuable early Italian paintings, some fine original Greek marbles, bronzes, and terra-cottas, water-color drawings by Turner and other English masters, and a valuable collection of prints...
...received an Italian painting of the Madonna with St. Catherine, attributed to Luini. Messrs. E. W. Forbes '95, Richard Norton '92, and Alden Sampson '76 have sent a limestone relief of ancient workmanship from Palmyra, and Mr. James Loeb '88 has given 48 casts of ancient marbles, bronzes and terra-cottas from the collection of the late Professor Furtwraengler of Berlin...
...University has received from Mr. James Loeb, A.B. '88, a gift of forty-eight plaster casts from ancient marbles, bronzes, and terra cottas, made from the collection of the late Professor Furtwangler. These casts form a good working collection, and will be useful in connection with instruction in Fine Arts...
According to the plans drawn by Freeman, Funk & Willcox, the building will be 400 feet long by 170 feet wide, with a roof 90 feet high, and a tower over the entrance 150 feet high. The material of construction will be concrete reinforced by steel trusses and faced with terra cotta. The auditorium will have a permanent seating capacity of 5000, with the seats arranged in the arena pit form, and the ice surface about 6 feet below the level of the main lobby. Access to the ice will be afforded by four large passageways leading from a wide promenade...
Following is a list of the gifts: a votive head of terra-cotta from Veil, presented by Professor J. M. Paton; a large terra-cotta Roman lamp, presented by Mrs. Schuyler Rensselaer, of New York; a model of a Roman bit, presented by R. W. Lee '04; a small collection of amphora handles, terra-cotta ex-votos and brick-stamps from the neighborhood of Rome, presented by Dr. A. S. Pease...