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The Art Museum of Princeton College has grown very rapidly in the last few years. The museum now embraces the Sheldon Jackson and Trumbull-Prime collections, the collection of Etruscan potteries made by Professor Frothingham and several others, most of which are well known; and recently a collection of bronze...
Our attention has been directed to the fact that the paintings which hang in Memorial Hall do not receive the care they should. Many of them are cracking and are suffering in other ways from insufficient attention. This collection of paintings is valuable not only because it is composed of...
It is amusing to notice how small institutions of learning put on airs. A minor university is worse than a minor poet. I happened lately to glance over the catalogue of a "university" of about 400 students, which "university" consists simply of a school of general literature and a school...
To-day, to-morrow and Friday occurs the auction sale in Boston of Maj. Ben: Perley Poore's valuable collection of autographs and manuscripts. The collection is very large and there will be two sales each day at 10 and 2.
The Yale University library has just received a collection of a thousand books purchased in London.