OVATIONS GIVEN TO PROFESSOR FRANCKE

The seventieth birthday of Professor Kuno Francke, celebrated in September, received its official recognition yesterday when a painting of Professor Francke was given to the University on behalf of a number of his former students. Yesterday's ceremony, at which the actual presentation was made by P. V. Bacon '97, of Boston, follows along series of testimonials and ovations occasioned by the birthday of the Harvard Professor Emeritus.

The painting, which was executed by I. M. Gaugengigi, was received in the name of the University by Professor C. If Moore '89, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The brief private exercises were held in the Germanic Museum, and took, place before representatives of the University, certain members of the Museum's Visiting Committee, and a small number of guests.

Came to Harvard in 1884

Professor Francke, who was born in Kiel Germany, 70 years ago came to Harvard as an instructor of German in 1884. Three years later he was made Assistant Professor of German, and in 1896 became Professor of the History of German Culture. In 1902 he was appointed Curator of the Germanic Museum and since 1917, when he was made Professor Emeritus, he became Honorary Curator.

An elaborately bound volume of letters of birthday greetings from the colleagues of Professor Francke in America and Europe has also been received. The 150 contributors to the Birthday Book comprise, among others, professors of German literature and art at German universities, and colleagues and former students at all the foremost universities and colleges of America. Among the contributions from Germany may be mentioned those by the former Prussian Minister of Education, Friedrick Schmidt-Ott, the former Secretary of the Interior, Theodora Lewald, the former Director-General of the Prussian Museums, Withelm von Bode, the America Ambassador, J. G. Schurman; the writers, Count Keyserling and Thomas Mann, Professor Friedliender and Dibelius of Berlin, Clemen of Bonn, and Eucken of Jena. Special addresses were sent by the University of Kiel, the German Sociological Society, the President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a group of professors at the University of Vienna, headed by Professor Josef Redlich.

Berlin Wants Similar Museum

In this letter Wilhelm von Bode, director-general emeritus of the Prussian State Museums, mentions a highly commendatory article on the Germanic Museum of the University, published in the September number of "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin.