Curator Who Is Honored on Seventieth Birthday

The oil painting production reproduced in the above cut was recently presented to the university in honor of the seventieth birthday of Professor-Emeritus Kuno Francke Honor '12, whom it represents.

The recent ceremony, at which the actual presentation of the picture, now hanging in the entry of the Germanic Museum, was made by P. V. Bacon '97, follows a long series of testimonials and ovations occasioned by the birthday of Professor Francke.

The portrait, which was painted by I. M. Gaugengigl, was the principal feature of the brief private celebration in the Germanic Museum.

Professor Francke, who was born in Keil, Germany, came to Harvard as an instructor of German in 1884. Three years later he was made Assistant Professor of the History of German Culture. In 1902 he was appointed Curator of the Germanic Museum, and in 1917, when he was made Professor-Emeritus, he became Honorary Curator.

In a letter received from Wilhelm von Bode, Director-General of the Prussian State Museum, is mentioned a highly commendatory article on Harvard's German Museum, published recently in "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin.

"No letter means of academic instruction in the history of art," wrote Dr. Bode, "could be found than such a systematic collection of casts." He deplored the indifference of most of the Berlin museum experts in this matter, and asks: "And the Government? Does it perhaps wait for Americans to show their appreciation of our help, in establishing the Germanic Museum at Harvard, by giving us a building for our collections of German casts?"