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The University Library has recently acquired a collection of rare Dutch pamphlets written by Sir George Downing, M.A., 1642. They relate to the Anglo-Dutch wars of 1663-67 and 1672-74, by which the colony of New Netherlands was wrested from the Dutch and renamed New York. Downing was...
The entire collection will be put in the Hall of Casts, at Robinson Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson, donors of Robinson Hall, have presented the University with a very valuable collection of original fragments of architecture. It contains a number of Corinthian capitals and Renaissance panels and vases. Among the most valuable acquisitions are a Roman carved anthemion frieze and a carved Roman...
The March number of the Monthly contains an editorial that is worth both careful reading and concentrated thought. The gist of it is that the present haphazard choice of courses should give way to a systematic method of some kind, even at the cost of a partial sacrifice of the...
The fourth of a series of six exhibits from the American Library of Art collection of reproductions from famous paintings and places of historic interest has been put on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. The exhibit includes fifty mounted photographs, representing the Alhambra and other specimens of...