Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bela Lyon Pratt, the sculptor of the frieze, was a former pupil of Augustus St. Gaudens and since the latter's death has completed several of the designs for gold coins which St. Gaudens was working on, notably the present two dollar and a half gold piece. Among Mr. Pratt's most famous works are "The Seasons" in the pavilion of the Library of Congress, the medallion of President Eliot, the statue of Phillips Brooks in Brooks House, besides some interior decorating in the Boston Public Library and the Boston Opera House...
...water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmanyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and, in 1902, he received a gold medal from the Philadelphia Art Club. Yale University awarded him the degree of L.H.D. in 1907. Mr. Smith is perhaps best known as an author...
...England Association of the Amateur Athletic Union will be held in Cyrus Hall, 40 Prospect street, Cambridge, this evening, at 7.30 o'clock. The rules of the Union will govern all contests, and the prizes awarded will consist of standard N. E. A. A. A. U. gold, and silver medals. Admission to the meet will be by tickets, which are 50 cents each...
...Gardin discussed the price of gold and its fluctuations, comparing the policies of the different European countries. Gold being the basis of international exchange affects by its fluctuating price the volume of imports and exports of every civilized nation, and its presence or absence in a country indicates the condition of that country's finances...
...Elwell is one of the leading American sculptors. His work exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, and at the Pan American, Buffalo, 1901, attracted wide public attention. He has twice been awarded a gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club, and received a silver medal from Leopold II of Belgium. He is an honorary member of the Cincinnati Art Club and of the Dickens Fellowship, and was curator for several years of the Department of Ancient and Modern Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City...