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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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rortt\s' <IH<{ MUSEUMS 117 commit too on faouliy and oourso ol study* nunlo a detailed report whioh was acocpted by tho trustees and ordered published "&8 embodying tho nuns and designs of tho University.** In this report tho following paragraph appears ; tT M The department of Kino Arts will require oasts, photo* graphs or engravings of tho groat mastorpiooos in art* Thoso may bo obtained At reasonable ratos% and original drawings* paintings and sculptures will in duo time bo added. Tho healthful, rotlniug and stimulating iutluouoo of such oollootions on tho minds of tho young must bo soon to bo properly approoiatod/* Tho limited funds of tho University woro ovidontly thought by tho Hoard insufttoiont to ponnit of an appropriation for objoots of art, and An art. collection whon finally startod oamo as a vosult of a oampaign instituted by Kogont Gregory among tho oiti/.ons of UYhana and Champaign, In tho annual mooting in tho spring of 1874 \)\\ Gregory announced that about- $2,000 had boon subsoribod for this purpose, and requested that tho largo ball abovo tho library (thou in Univorsity Hall) bo sot apart for tho art collection*1* I n December of tho same yoar Or, Gregory reported that tho proposed plan had boon oonsummatod and that tho Univorsity was <4now in possession of ono of tho bost oollootions of oasts of oolobratod statuary, and othor soulpturos, to bo found in this country***1* Tho collection comprised also **a large nutnbor of ftno on* gravings, and a huudrod photographs takon directly from tho original pointings in tho groat national galleries.'' Tho Art Museum remained in Univorsity Ua.ll until 1807* and was thou romovod to tho uowly constructed Library Hall/-*0 Klovon yea IN la tor, when tho growth of tho Library and tho Library School necessitated tho uso of tho entire building by thoso interests, tho art objoots woro again moved* this timo to various University buildings. Of tho objoots oontainod in tho original collootion nino heroic antique statuos woro placed in tho foyor of tho Auditorium, throo in University Hall and ono "Rtpt, UAiv, of UK, ISfSj P* 00 ^Kopt., Pulv, of Xllj ;bS7a, pp. 91*98 "Rept*, \h\K\ of m„ lare, p, 01 "R«pt<, Uniw of 111,, 18US, p, 108
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