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...Rudolph Blaschka, the artist who with his father, modeled the famous "glass flowers" in the University Botanical Museum, has begun work on a supplementary collection of glass models of grasses and sedges, which will be displayed on their completion in a room adjoining the Ware collection of glass flowers...
...Ware collection now on exhibition will be practically complete when twenty models and fifty magnified anatomical details, now in the artist's studio in Germany, have been transported to this country. Under existing conditions it is unsafe to transport them, especially as their removal "in bond" to Boston cannot yet be secured. Up to the time of the war, the glass flowers were shipped direct to Boston and then by the courtesy of the Custom House officials were carried directly to the Museum in Cambridge and were unpacked safely at the University...
...Widener Library has on exhibition in the Treasure Room some contemporary souvenirs of Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824, including Everett's oration and Ware's poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in that year, with manuscript notes of the toasts given at the dinner at which Lafayette was a guest, a play--bill of the theatrical performance in his honor in New York, various biographies called forth by his presence here, a collection of poems in his honor, and a scrap--book of newspaper clippings tracing his progress from town to town...
...Divinity Avenue, about 200 yards off Kirkland Street is the University Museum, where is the famous Ware collection of Blaschka Glass Models. In this building are also the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Mineralogical and Geological Museum, and the Peabody Museum, all of which are open from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. except Sunday. Directly opposite the University Museum on Divinity Avenue is the Semitic Museum...
...pleasing fairy tale is the substance of the first play, a Japanese "Noh" product, "Hagoromo". Leonard Ware '21 will take the part of, "Hakuryo", a fisherman, who finds a feathery Tennin cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...