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Viewed by more than 100,000 gallerygoers yearly, the Freer Chinese bronze collection includes axes, swords and daggers, basins, wine cups and pitchers, clapperless bells, mirrors and food vessels. Freer had accumulated 725 pieces; John Ellerton Lodge, the first director, and his successor Archibald Wenley, added some 140 more, stuck rigidly to Freer's high standards. Experts estimate that some of the bronzes go back to the Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). While their quality and style vary, Alan Priest, Far East curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts all in a single category: "Magnificent...
...Russell Square offers similar facilities and arranges for students to obtain reading tickets for the British Museum Library, the Record Office, etc. Dean C. M. Gayley, of the University of California, will continue to act as Director until September, when he will be succeeded by Professor R. M. Wenley, of the University of Mhicigan. The Assistant Director is R. H. Simpson, who has prepared a pamphlet "Guide for American Students of the British Isles" which may be obtained by application to the Secretary of the Union, Professor J. W. Cunliffe, Journalism Building, Columbia University, New York City...
...Prof. Wenley is quite right. TIME regrets the misplaced qualifier and the incorrect spelling...
...WENLEY...
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