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...plaster casts of German works of art which Professor Francke, during his trip in Europe, bought for the Germanic Museum, are now arriving at Cambridge in successive shipments. The collection includes copies of the Bernward Column from Hildesheim Cathedral, the Choir Screen of St.Michael's at Hildesheim, various figures from the tomb of Emperor Maximilian at luns-bruck, the Statue of Emperor Henry II in Bamberg Cathedral, and other reproductions from works of German mediaeval and renaissance art. The collection will occupy the entire side aisle of the museum...
...meet the increased demand for extra orders of ice cream, which will come with the hot weather, a place for serving all uncooked orders will be built this week in Memorial Hall, adjoining the east end of the large serving screen. In order to make room for this addition, tables 5, 6, 16 and 17, which now run lengthwise, will be placed crosswise and thus room will be made next to these four tables for table 8, which now occupies the space designated for the new serving-place. This change will enable the waiters to serve uncooked orders...
...interesting water color drawing of a Bird's Nest and Hawthorn Blossoms by William Hunt of the Old English Water Color Society has recently been purchased by the Fine Arts Department, and now hangs on the screen in the upper gallery of the Museum...
...better one. The arrangement of details would be very simple. For example, a platform might be erected in the Tree, and flowers thrown out from it in every direction. If it should seem best to have the men who do the throwing concealed, they might be stationed behind a screen of evergreens. The great advantage of this new plan seems to be that there could be no prolonged scrimmage, as the flowers, falling lightly on a compact mass, could never reach the ground...
...introduction Professor Doerpfeld showed on the screen a number of the best preserved Doric temples-including the Parthenon and the so-called Theseum-edifices which exhibit the order in its perfection; and then raised the question as to the origin of the Doric temple. According to the traditional belief, the Doric temple in its finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown...