The formal opening and reception at Robinson Hall yesterday afternoon was very successful. About five hundred attended, including members of the Faculty and their wives members of the Board of Overseers and their wives, representatives of the Boston Society of Architecture, the Boston Architectural 'Club, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Technology.

Several new acquisitions were received and installed yesterday morning before the opening. A cast of the altar of Ostia and others of Roman fragments from the Vatican and Lateran museums at Rome were erected in the Hall of Casts.

Today and tomorrow the whole building will be open to the public.