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...gift of $20,000 from Mrs. George Putnam was announced to establish a fund in memory of her brother, James Jackson Lowell '58, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library...
Such a man was Professor Wendell. He always taught most effectively when least conscious or deliberate in his teaching. With his flawless taste in letters, hew was the surest possible guide to his students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist...
...Fogg Art Museum has acquired an exceptionally fine landscape in oil by John Singer Sargent. It represents Lake O'Hara in British Columbia, with the mountains rising behind it. The picture is a memorial to Mr. Bettens' mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. The museum has also acquired as a gift from a group of people, one of the water colors which Mr. Sargent painted at the same time near Lake O'Hara...
...greatest of living painters, is now in Boston overseeing the placing of his large new decorative religious paintings in the Boston Public Library. He spent last summer in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where he painted two large landscapes in oil, one being the recent gift to the Fogg, Museum, the other having just been added to Mrs. John L. Gardner's collection at Fenway Court. The Alumni Bulletin comments as follows upon this recent gift...
Seven new elms have been presented to the University and are now being transplanted into the Yard. Six of these are the gift of Arthur H. Lea '80, of Philadelphia, Pa., who also presented the trees transplanted last spring and the other is from an anonymous donor. The sixth of the number is now being set up behind University Hall. Although the trees are not by any means the biggest ever transplanted, they are as large as can be conveniently handled and moved under the trolley wires in Cambridge...