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...most important object added last year is the reproduction in concrete of a sandstone slab, dating from about 1280 from the tomb of Ulrich, Baron of Regensburg. The slab, which is the gift of Dr. Angst of Zurich, was found when the old fortifications of Zurich were destroyed in 1903 imbedded face down in one of the towers. It had served as the lower shelf of an embrasure, having been carried off for building material upon the demolition of its original home, the Church of the Barefooted Augustinians. Engraved upon the slab, in the manner of the niello technique...
Another important addition is the figure of a Roman soldier, with reproductions of arms, from the Romisch-Germanisches Museum at Mainz. This statue, the gift of Mr. H. W. Putnam of Boston, is a companion figure to the Frankish warrior now in the Museum, and is intended to show the equipment of the Roman troops fighting on German territory in the first century...
...fund providing for these lectures was established last year by the gift of $10,000 from an anonymous Harvard graduate, for the purpose of securing members of the Harvard Faculty to give lectures at Yale. The first of these lectures was delivered by President Eliot, on November 13, on the subject. "Resemblances and Differences Among the American Universities...
...Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles of engravings by James Ward and William Ward; a portrait of President Eliot, etched by Sidney L. Smith; a portrait of Elias Boudinot, by Waldo and Jewett, engraved by A. D. Durand; a portrait...
...this move the class of 1881 is following the example of 1879 and 1880. The response to the efforts of the committee has been so general and onthusiastic, that a large part of the proposed gift has already been accumulated, and the entire subscription will probably be completed before Commencement...