Our attention has been directed to the fact that the paintings which hang in Memorial Hall do not receive the care they should. Many of them are cracking and are suffering in other ways from insufficient attention. This collection of paintings is valuable not only because it is composed of portraits of former benefactors of Harvard College, but because it numbers among its artists men like Copley and others of almost equal note. When it is considered how great the value of the collection really is, and how great an interest it will always have to students who come to Harvard, every means possible for preserving the paintings should be taken. We hope to see the authorities who have the care of these pictures in charge look into the matter and do all they can to keep the paintings from premature decay.
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