man people. The committee, which included such names as Virchow, Mommsen—both, alas, now departed—Harnack, Paulsen, Schöne, Lessing and Wildenbruch, decided upon a collection of galvanoplastic reproductions of representative works of German gold and silver work from the 15th to the end of the 18th century. This costly collection, consisting of over thirty large and some twenty smaller pieces, all of them specimens of the best workmanship of three centuries, is now nearly completed, and I have been authorized on this day to state that by the end of the year this gift of the German people will be in the possession of Harvard University.[1]
It is most gratifying that still another side of German life is to be represented by a gift which comes from your own midst. I refer to the most welcome donation of 10,000 books on the history of Germany and of German civilization which Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge is to make to Harvard College as a memorial to the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to the University in 1902. His Majesty the Emperor, as well as his Royal Highness Prince Henry, are greatly pleased with this thoughtful recognition of their interest in the same cause which brings us together here to-day, and I have the honor of being the messenger of their appreciation and thanks.
All who enter the Germanic Museum pass through the Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, placed at the Museum's entrance. They all come to study the old works of our common forefathers. I venture to express the hope that those who thus enter this gate may by that act symbolize likewise their entrance through that golden gate of true science which leads to progress and humanity.
Vivat, crescat, floreat Museum Germanicum Universitatis Harvardiensis.
The Chairman then introduced the President of the University.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT ELIOT.
For many generations manuscripts and books have been the accepted means of transmitting knowledge, and keeping the rec-
- ↑ Foot note: The address accompanying this collection is printed on another page.
