Word: attics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Joseph Clark Hoppin '93 will give an illustrated lecture on "The Making of an Attic Vase" before the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America on Monday afternoon, December 1, at 4 o'clock, in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The lecture is open to the public without charge...
...Argive Heraeum. He taught classical art and archaeology at Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, as well as serving as professor in the American School at Athens. With the late Richard Norton '92 he was engaged in the American excavations at Cyrene in North Africa. Professor Hoppin's "Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," recently published by the Harvard University Press, has attained high rank among the authoritative works on Greek archaeology...
Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in the tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time...
...University for many years, was badly damaged by fire early yesterday morning. The fire was discovered about 1 o'clock in the kitchen in the rear of the wooden frame building, and before the firemen arrived had worked its way between the partitions and into the blind attic above, so that they had a long task before they were certain that they had it under control. It was not until between 6 and 7 o'clock that the engines were finally recalled. The danger is estimated at between...
...fire was discovered by Arthur Badger, of Quincy, who was visiting there. The damage is estimated at approximately $6,000. It was found necessary to cut away part of the walls and ceilings of the lower floors to get at the sections where the fire travelled up to the attic...