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In the Graduate Schools

School of Education Acquires Copies of Famous Prints and Paintings

A portrait of the Reverend Mr. Charles Brookes, which was discovered in an old store in Boston, has been presented by John Albree of Boston to the Committee on Iconography of the School of Education headed by C. S. Thomas '97.

The painting, which was in an almost ruined condition, has been repaired by experts at the Fogg Art Museum, and now hangs in Room 3 of Lawrence Hall.

Mr. Albree, a Boston professional man, who has taken an interest in the life of Brooks for many years, is the author of an historical treatise under the title, "Charles Brooks and His Work for Normal Schools."

This Committee on Iconography has collected a large number of photographs and prints for Lawrence Hall. Among these pictures are two reproductions of old prints of Harvard one showing a group of the older buildings, the other, portraying a quiet cricket game in progress in front of Sumner's monument near Harvard Square.

There are also two photostats of prints in a book on Oxford with engravings done by James Loggan in the late seventeenth century. The original may be found in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. They are entitled "Prospect of Oxford from the East near London Road" and "Prospect of Oxford from the South near Abbington Road."

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In the center of the Harvard group hangs a print of the familiar painting of "The Three Philosophers", William James, Josiah Royee, and George Herbert Palmer, the original of which is in the Faculty Room of Harvard College.

A photograph hand-colored in England, of the John Harvard and Lawrence Chaderton Window in the Chapel of Emmanuel College, from which John Harvard graduated, also has a place in the collection.

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