The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-22
HARVARD'S GERMANIC
MUSEUM-INSTITUT TO WHICH
 THE KAISER

Charactor-Designed to Illustrate
 Germanic Life From tho Earliest
 TimetIts Value and Harvard's Fit
 ness to Bo It's Home.
 Prince Henry's visit to Harvard has
 renewed interest in the Germanic Mu-
 scum. The idea originated about five
 years ago with Professor Kuno Francke
 of Harvard. The proposition was
 warmly supported by the Visiting Com
 nlittee of the Germanic department of
 which Henry w. Putnam of Boston was
 the head.
 A sum of money was raised by an ap-
 peal to friends of the university and
 placed in the hands of the treasurer of
 the corporation. Later it was suggest
 ed to the Germanc department that
 such collection might very properly
 enlist a national interest
 It was recalled that more than eighty
 years ago Goethe sent to Harvard as a
 mark of his esteem for the oldest
 of American colleges, a gift of his writ
 ings; that a few years later the first
 German professorship established in
 any American college was founded at
 Harvard; and that the transcendental movement--centering more or less about
 Harvard and ultimately so significant
 in the moral and literary life of this
 country--was in many ways based on
 German philosophical thought. These
 things, it was argued, made Harvard natural centre not for local but for national German museum.
 The idea having been accepted with the greatest cordiality by the officers of the university and of the German department the present Germanic Mu- scum Association, which this week re- ceived Prince Henry as its guest, was formed. Carl Schurz of New York was elected president. MT. Putnam was made chairman of the Board of Direc- tors, on which Harvard was represent ed by Professor George A. Bartlett Professor H. c. c. von Jagemann, Pro- lessor F'rancke and Professor Hugo Munsterberg.
 Among the vice presidents are Gus tav von Bezold, director of the German ic Museum in Nuremburg, after which the present Harvard museum is largely 10 De nlOQeleu, AIlHuI Noil 1oi icSSii oi New York; Carl Buenz, the German consult genearl in New York; Professor Carpenter of the German department Of Columbia university; Professor Collitz of Bryn Mawr; Professor Gobel of Le- land Stanford university; Professor Hiprecht of the University of Penn sylvania; Professor Voss of the Univer- eity of Wisconsin, Professor Wood of Johns Hopkins university, and, among others, men like President Roosevelt 1 whose interest in German studies is well known; the German ambassador Baron von, Holleben, with the Amerf- 1 can ambassador at Berlin, Andrew D. | White; William T. Harris, United | States commissioner of education; | President Eliot, Frederick P, Fish, l president of the American Bell Tele | phone company; Charles Godfrey Le- | land, still strong and vigorous in the | Italian home which he has made for | himself in Florence, though remember | ed as the earliest American translator | of Heine and even more widely as the {, inimitable author of the Hans Breit- | mann ballads.
 The dues of annual membership werq placed at S2, with 1925 for life member ship, and Fredriclk S. Goodwin and Her. bert Small of Boston were chosen re- spectiveiy to be treasurer and secretary with corresponding secretaries in |, Washington, Milwaukee Chicago, In- < Columbus, San Francisco, | St. Louis and New York.
 As is well known from a series of de- spatches which have reached this coun- try from the other side of the water, the movement has enlisted the sym pathy and interest of the German En- peror from the start. The degree granted to Dr. von Holleben a short time ago, following the precedent set in the previous degree to M. Cambon, the French ambassador, is understood to have greatly pleased the German court. The late Hermann Grimm. perhaps l the best known German art critic of the present generation, wrote to Professor $ Francke shortly before his death inti- T mating that the university might ex- oect some such gift as was received this I week, although at that time it was not supposed that 1t would be so rich in | yaluabl objects and so comprehensive If German art as a whole; for the gift, IS it has finally developed may be con- ' ;idered in some respects as a museum ' II itself. Illustrating as it does by prin- ,ipaI objects the general course of Ger nan art.
 The Germanic Museum, is not confin- d, however, to the art and civilization f present-day Germany The name E reutonic museum, indeed, might per- ! laps convey to most persons stricter I. lotion of Its significance. A AS the official statement of the asso- A iation defines it. the collections will eaI with he history of civilization not nly in Germany, but also in Scandi- A avia, Denmark, the Low Countries A ierman Austria, the German cantons A f Switzerland and even the England f the Anglo Saxon period; and gifts A nd contributions complementing the terman Emperor's present are expect A q, it is understood, from other coun- A ries and other nationalities. A Generally speaking, the scheme of p he museum, as conceived by the asso- Iation, is similar to that of a number B f national museums in Europe; for ex- B6 mple, the Germanic Museum at R nuremberg, the Swiss Museum at lC, urich, the Morse Museum at Copen- Ci agen, the Hotel de Cluny at Paris ICFS