Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROOMMATE magnanimously offered to pay the $1.50 student entrance fee on her first visit to the Fogg Museum freshman year. "That's alright, honey," said the woman at the door, smiling kindly, "you're already paying $17,000." And so she was. And so we all are. And yet so many students have never been to the Fogg, let alone the Sackler or the Busch-Reisinger (whose collections temporarily are being housed at the Fogg due to renovations...
...beyond number in our infant days. Now is different. If you still don't like them no one is going to make you stay. But you will like it and you will stay. In fact you will probably be charmed beyond your wildest expectations. Few know it, but the Fogg is probably the best reason to be at Harvard. Some even claim it is the only reason...
...ONLY is the Fogg itself a building of great whimsical charm, being vaguely neoclassical on the outside and surprisingly Italmate on the inside, but it also houses a collection for which many of the great museums of the world would give their proverbial eye teeth. At present several of the Fogg's outstanding collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings are on display, including a super group of recently restored Rossettis. For those who favor pouting, melancholy women, this should be just the thing, especially as they are displayed alongside detailed descriptions of how they were painted and--a cheering thought...
Rather than deplete the Fogg's collection, the restoration project commissioned two new gargoyles for the Mem Hall skyline, and they will be installed some time this fall...
...restoration's most dramatic change will be the replacement of Mem Hall's missing gargoyles. Each of the building's four towers was originally inhabited by one of these creatures, but only two of them remain. One of the missing gargoyles currently resides in the Fogg Art Museum and the other has never been found, Riley said...