Word: butting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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He had spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted...
After describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is...
"However desirable it may be that this change should be made, we feel sure that a very large number of those who have given any attention to American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty...
The club was successful on its trip and are deserving of great praise for the way in which they represented Harvard, but this can surely furnish no excuse for carelessness and indifference now. Success should lead to still greater efforts. To old and new members alike we would urge the...
According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may...