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Opposite the Fogg Museum is Memorial Hall, where nearly a thousand students board. Beyond this on Kirkland Street is the Germanic Museum, recently re-opened to the public.
The Germanic Museum of the University opens its doors to the public today for the second time since its formal opening last Wednesday. The Museum will be open every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon until the final touches are put on the interior work.
The Germanic Museum was originated in steps taken in 1897 by members and friends of the 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...
The 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...
Now, however, the building is to come into its legitimate own. Considered architecturally, it is certainly no disgrace. Moreover, as the University's Germanic collection is a trifle too good to destroy, it needs a depository, and naturally this much-slandered edifice will dutifully continue serving this purpose. The odium...