Word: gilt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only ornaments being laurel festoons draped from the lights and potted palms here and there. The decorations in the rooms on the west wing and the Dining Room, in all of which boxes were located, were carefully planned. As a central lighting fixture in each room was a large gilt sunburst lighted with frosted and red electric bulbs. From these were festooned strings of greens or illuminated Japanese lanterns, while through the boxes, which were partitioned off by screens and palms, soft red or green lights were suffused. The boxes were made attractive with a profusion of sofas, chairs, pillows...
...ever made a deeper impression upon the educational system of a country than President Eliot has upon the educational system of America. His gilt for leadership, his discrimination in the choice of men, and his power to conceive and execute large plans have made him the most conspicuous and influential figure of the last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private...
...Senior Class Book, which is published this year for the first time, will go on sale at the CRIMSON office about noon today. The book is bound in red with a pleasing cover design in gilt. It is very nearly the size and shape of the Class Album, for which it is intended to be a companion piece...
...books are attractively bound in dark red cloth, with rough edges and gilt top. Each volume contains a photogravure portrait. The price is seventy-five cents...