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has already been passed and that the age of extravagant emotion 

 and artificiality is setting in. 



When, in November, 1903, these and other precious gifts of the 

 German Emperor were temporarily installed in the insignificant 

 little building which Harvard University could spare for them as a 

 scanty shelter, it was hoped that only a short time would elapse 

 before a new and worthy museum building would have been erected 

 through the liberality of American friends of German culture. 

 These hopes have not yet been fulfilled. Here is the opportunity 

 for our fellow citizens of German origin to prove to the world that 

 they do not leave their ideals at home when they leave the father- 

 land ; and here is a chance for all Americans to show their appre- 

 ciation of what German culture has given to this country. 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



