When a new work of art is brought into the museum, it first passes through the domain of Superintendent Milton Worthley where it is unpacked by Elmer Heaps, former Gloucester sailmaker who is now The Fogg's carpenter. Then the work is sent through a fixed routine from the registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal on it and the mace from the Irish parliament, which has been stored there since the World's Fair.

Also in Superintendent Worthley's charge is the protection of the building and its valuables. In the daytime it is a fairly simple matter with all exits carefully watched and all galleries patroled. At night Rex of Gainwell takes over this responsibility. This eight-year-old German shepherd leaves his house on the back porch each evening to make the rounds with the night watchman, as did his father before him.

The Fogg's collected treasures have the dual purpose of serving as common museum exhibits and as laboratory specimens for student study. No artistic work will be accepted on the condition that it be constantly on display, and the contents of the galleries are changed periodically with the aid of a clever measuring device which allows one man alone to hang a painting exactly 62 inches from the floor. For paintings which are needed for study but which can find no place in the galleries there is the Picture Study Room, consisting of 22 rolling screens for these exhibits.

Additional features of the building include the Print Room under Curator Jakob Rosenburg, specialist on Rembrandt, who has accumulated the most widely representative collection of modern prints to date. Drawings are under the care of Agnes Mongan, who with Professor Sachs wrote "Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum," a Fine Arts best seller.

Radcliffe Given Equal Rights

The Fogg's library and photograph collection are unique for their lack of discrimination against Radcliffe students. In addition to the three-story library of stacks and reading room which is solely a convenient branch of Widener, there is a collection of 55,000 slides for class use and 147,000 photographs including a Spanish collection more extensive than anything elsewhere accumulated, even in Spain.

To all these highly-skilled, seemingly out-of-the-world departments war has come with shocking brutality. The librarian has had to answer pleas of a soldier in Florida for information on Egyptian archaeology, the maintenance department has had to pack and supervise the departure of innumerable treasures to their secret shelter for the duration, and teachers have had to stress timely notes in Fine Arts to hold their students' interest. Perhaps even the conspicuous sign. "Students are requested not to use this elevator . . . It is intended only for the use of the Faculty, staff, and guests," may disappear, and undergraduates may find that The Fogg offers something to those who want it.