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...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 to Professor Richard H. Martin, who started the collection in 1874, and has been untiring in his efforts to enlarge it ever since. The chemical laboratory is not up to the modern standard, but in all the other departments of learning, ample opportunity is offered for work. The faculty. under President...
...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 stock. By permission of the directors the collection will be deposited for the present in the new part of the Peabody Museum on the second floor...
...Lawe of the college library, collected many valuable photographs for the art department while in Europe. Some new plaster casts have also been received by the department...
FOUND, at the gymnasium, at the last winter meeting, a silver court plaster case with the monogram W. J. L. Apply to Andrew Lerner, 14 Mt. Auburn street...
...fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow, and composed for the most part of laths and plaster. Secondly, financial considerations stand in the way; for the recent bequests to the library were all made with special purposes in view, and the overseers cannot legally divert the funds from those purposes...