Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paintings" is the title of the first Fogg Art Museum Catalogue ever issued, which goes on sale Wednesday morning. The volume, which contains upwards of 400 pages of reading matter and heliotype illustrations, to the number of 66, is quarto size, sumptuously bound in heavy board with a rich cloth back, and consists chiefly of a careful index of the primitive and Renaissance paintings dating before 1700, which may be seen at the Museum. The book, which is a publication of the Harvard University Press, will be available at the Co-operative Society and other bookstores...
...scenery in "Fame and the Poet", however, will stand a few adverse comments. It had no definite character; it added nothing to the picture. There were no specific faults, except the wall cloth in rear of the altar, but the totality seemed rather far from the spirit of the play. The view over the roof tops from the Poet's window was extremely good, and in some measure atoned for the colorless interior. The lighting was good and well managed...
...pool and three billiard tables in the billiard room in the basement have been thoroughly overhauled during the summer, and new cloth, cushions, cues and pool and billiard balls have been furnished. The old lighting fixtures have been replaced by new ones. The billiard room has been placed in the charge of Mr. Ben Laurie, the billiard expert of Boston, who will see that the tables and equipment are kept in good condition. Mr. Laurie will also be glad to give lessons or instruction to those members who desire to avail themselves of this opportunity...
...pool and three billiard tables have been overhauled during the summer. New cloth, cushions, cues, and pool and billiard balls have been furnished. More adequate lighting fixtures have been installed. The room will be under the supervision of Mr. Ben Laurie, a billiard expert of Boston, who not only will keep the tables and equipment in good condition, but will be glad to give lessons or instruction to those members who desire to avail themselves of this opportunity...
...monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...