Word: collectionitis
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The facilities for education at Amherst are excellent. The college takes a particular pride in its large collection of plaster casts of ancient and modern sculpture which is second to none in the United States except the one in Boston. For this museum of fine art the college is indebted...
In the main building is the office of the instructor in charge; at the left is a collection room, and behind that a photographic study. The second story contains a room and laboratory for the assistant, with collecting and drying rooms. Much will be done in the building in microscopic...
There remains yet much to be done in the investigation of Semitic thought; the history is to be cleared up, and the literature to be expounded and made intelligible to the modern mind. No small part of the poetry of the Hebrews and Arabs is a sealed book to us...
We have already a small collection of cuneiform inscriptions (the gift of Mr. Salisbury of Worcester to the Divinity School) a few plaster cuts of tablets and a cast of the famous black obelisk of the British Museum (in Sever 9). It is intended to begin immediately to add to...
The generous gift of Mr. Jacob Schiff will be, we hope, the first step toward the formation of such a valuable museum in the university that Harvard may become a centre in America for research in the Semitic language and history. With the funds now promised a collection can be...