Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extension of the stage in Sanders will be completed this evening and all further work on the scenery will be done next week. Mr. Sargent will come to Cambridge on Monday to make the final arrangements. The libretto of the play will be on sale on Monday and will contain some interesting facts about the theatre and plays of Jonson's time. Harper Brothers will probably publish an account of "The Silent Woman" as given here, with photographs of several of the scenes. Today the tickets are on public sale. They have been selling well and the house is expected...
...scenery is a much disputed matter. The old idea is that there was none at all; but Mr. Day, the architect who is at work on the scenery for the "Silent Woman," thinks there was. In the first place the books of the theatrical managers of the Elizabethan period contain items of painted cloths, trees, and other appliances. Mr. Day says the depth of the stage was twenty-five feet, too great to be spanned by one roof, hence the two roofs. The space concealed by the slanting roof was used to arrange and lower scenery...
...memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...facilities for studying the manuscripts in the libraries of Jerusalem, Cairo, Mt. Athos, and Constantinople are very good. The libraries contain printed catalogues of the old manuscripts in them and the custodians allow explorers free access to the manuscripts. In addition to this the books are properly housed. So it is seen that the facilities for research in the East are fully as good as in the West; there are only three of the collections at Cambridge, England, which are properly catalogued and most of the manuscripts in America are so little known as to be of little...
...hoped that $50,000 will be raised for the purpose of erecting a new building for the Semitic Department. A provisional offer of $25,000 has been made. The building would be located somewhere near the University Museum and would contain a library, lecture rooms, and exhibition rooms...