Word: doric
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bulfinch Memorial tablets have been set up in Doric Hall at the State House. The inscriptions on both tablets were written by President Eliot at the request of ex-Governor Wolcott. One is in memory of Charles Bulfinch, and one is commemorative of the preservation and renewal of the State House...
...Fogg Art Museum last evening by Mr. Edward Robinson. He took for his subject Greek Architecture, and showed that its chief development was in the temple, which was always perfectly simple and as far as possible a unit. There was no individualism shown and the only differences in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian forms were in matters of detail...
...Does the Greek Doric Order find its origin in Egypt...
Writers who have been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
...conclusion, he remarked that although in its elements the Doric temple was of foreign origin, it was to the genius of Greek architects that we owe this most perfect of all creations...