Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind...
...exact distinctions between the orders are necessarily technical, but in general the orders may be distinguished by the difference in the caps of the columns. The Doric is the simplest, then comes the Ionic increasing in strength and richness, and finally, most massive and rich of all, the Corinthian...