 Major gifts during the 1930s included a collection of more than 40 Italian paintings from Henry White Cannon, Jr., of the Class of 1910, and more than 500 snuff bottles, still one of the finest such collections in the country, from Colonel James A. Blair, Class of 1903.The decade also saw significant collections of Chinese and Japanese art added to support the courses of George Rowley, the first in those fields in an American university.The World War II years ushered in the first classes in American art.