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Atlantic Monthly-"The Love of Wealth and the Public Service," by F. W. Tausig '79; "Low New York," by G. C. Lodge '95; "M. Mulvina," by H. J. Smith '04; "Shakespeare and the Plastic Stage," by J. Corbin...
...subjects suggested this year for the theses, are as follows: "Greek Conceptions of a Future Life as Illustrated by Works of Art," "The Dramatic Art of Euripides," "The Part taken by Women in Greek Cults," "The International Aspects of Greek Commerce," "The Influence of Greek Plastic Art on Greek Tragic Poetry." With the approval of the committee, other subjects relating to the classics may be chosen...
...collection of reproductions of work by German goldsmiths and silver-smiths recently received at the Germanic Museum will be placed on exhibition for the first time today. This collection, which includes about seventy galvano-plastic copies, is arranged in three cases; the first case containing works of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the second chiefly those of the seventeenth century, and the third those of the eighteenth century...
...behalf of the Faculty, welcomed the Germanic Museum as an addition to our general back-ground of culture. He spoke of the spirit of study here.--minute research, mainly, as derived from Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works are so communicable and urbane...
...scheme of the Museum is similar to that of several European museums among which are the Germanic Museum at Nuremburg, the Swiss Museum at Zurich, the Norse Museum at Copenhagen, and the Hotel de Cluny at Paris. "Models and reproductions (either plastic or photographic) of typical work illustrating Germanic life and character from the earliest times to the present day will naturally be the first acquisitions. From the beginning, however, it is proposed to secure originals also; weapons and costumes, implements and utensils, engravings, books, paintings, sculptures, and carvings of real value, artistically and historically...