Mr. Forbes to Direct Fogg Museum

Mr. Edward Waldo Forbes '95 has been appointed director of the Fogg Art Museum in place of Professor Charles H. Moore h.'90, whose resignation will take effect September 1, 1909. Mr. Forbes has made valuable contributions, chiefly of Italian paintings, to both the Boston and Cambridge museums.

After being graduated from the University, Mr. Forbes studied for two years in Italy and Greece. He then spent several years at New College, Oxford, after which he returned to America. In 1903 he became a master at the Middlesex School at Concord, but was obliged to give up this work on account of illness. The following year he again visited Europe and pursued his studies in the important picture galleries of England, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Mr. Forbes has served as trustee of public reservations in Massachusetts and as trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music.