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Rh The following reply was received:—

President Eliot, Harvard University, Cambride, Mass.

I am very glad to hear that Germanic Museum has been opened and thank Harvard University heartily for kind wishes. With God's help I hope for recovery in time. WILLIAM I. R.&emsp;

Among numerous messages received the following should be mentioned:—

President Eliot, Cambridge, Mass.

Prosperity and success to the Germanic Museum, the newest markstone of progressing German-American friendship. Harvard forever. HOLLEBEN.&emsp; Germanic Museum Association, Cambridge, Mass.

The National Executive Committee of the North American Turnerbund offers sincere congratulations to the Germanic Museum Association on the opening of the Germanic Museum, an institution that will tend to make the oldest American University the center of Germanic studies in the United States, and to lead our nation to a higher appreciation of German culture as an element in the progress of mankind. THEODOR STEMPSET, Secretary.&emsp; 

Die Entstehung eines an das Harvard-College angeschlossenen Germanischen Museums, das in Nachbildungen hervorragender Werke der Kunst und des Kunstgewerbes die Entwickelung germanischer Kultur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart zur Anschauung bringen soil, hat in Deutschland die warme Teilnahme aller derjenigen erregt, denen die Beziehungen unserer Freunde jenseits des Ozeans zu dem Heimatlande und seinem Geistesleben am Herzen liegen.

Mit der lebhaftesten Freude ist deshalb auch bei uns die