Word: corinthian
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...peristyle are eighteen Corinthian pillars and many statues, both large and small, besides various tables, fountains and the like. It is much the most interesting part of the house...
...open until Commencement. The exhibition will be of great interest as the department is new and did not get fairly started before this year. Most of the work is by first year students and is in elementary architectural drawing. The subjects of the plates are the Doric, Onic and Corinthian orders and some small buildings, - all taken from classic examples. The work is very creditable for first year students. Several students have taken the second year course in original design. The artistic rendering of the drawings is particularly attractive. Besides these there are numerous small plates and sketches...
...House this afternoon to witness the departure of the crew for New London. Each man on the crew and each substitute was heartily cheered. Messrs. Cook, Bolton and Ives will have charge of the coaching. The freshman crew will not go to New London until next Saturday. The Yale Corinthian Yacht Club held their annual regatta last week...
...study room. This is directly over the recitation rooms, and is 70 by 30 feet. To the right of the study is a space about ten feet wide, partitioned by a panelled screen. Rising from this screen is a colonnade. The columns are of fine proportions and of the Corinthian order. On these columns rests an appropriate entablature. This room is to be fitted with tables and chairs, and here students may prepare for recitations or consult books from the library...
...purposes of poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with...