Word: busch
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...department of Germanic languages and literatures. In 1901 the Germanic Museum Association was founded and the Museum was officially established by vote of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Numerous gifts for the collection were installed temporarily in the Rogers Building. A large fund given by Adolphus Busch of St. Louis in 1910, and after his death additional funds by his heirs made the building a certainty...
...Germanic Museum, housing specimens and copies of German mediaeval and renaissance art, is now reopened to the public for the first time since the outbreak of the war. During these four turbulent years the new building, provided for in the will of Adolphus Busch, was the object of frequent discussions as to what might, and what should be done with it. Unevious patriots suggested tearing it down; others, more lenient, that it be converted to a toolhouse, or at least a garage--anything, in fact, but what it was originally intended for. The structure, meanwhile, was ostensibly neglected, the wrought...