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...Roman court, splendid composite of Imperial Roman style, is the Sardis room containing the almost perfect Ionic column and other objects found at Sardis. Nearby is the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities...
...there will be a fifth story which will set back 33 feet from the front line. The facade will be constructed of brick and limestone; and the sides and back will be of brick. The central feature of the Commonwealth avenue facade will be a portico supporting four Ionic columns. The main entrance doors at this point will be of iron and glass. Above the portico is the Harvard seal carved in stone, the dominating feature of the design...
...building is of buff Bedford limestone and classic in design. The facade, facing towards the east, consists of a row of large Ionic columns, between which is a light wall fitted with large windows to light the reading room. The central portion will contain the library with the reading room on the second floor and the lecture rooms on the ground floor. As in Austin Hall, the lecture rooms are arranged in the form of amphitheaters, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk. The interior will be fire proof throughout and will be finished...
About the middle of the sixth century, said Mr. Murray, the pressure of the Persian army on the Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...
Recent unfavorable weather conditions have materially retarded the work on Langdell Hall, the new Law School Building on Holmes Field, which was begun last spring. However, comparatively little masonry work remains to be done. The walls are up and ready for the cornices. On top of the Ionic columns along the eastern facade the caps are being placed. With the exception of the roof-girders, the steel work is fairly well along. Work on the underground corridor between Austin Hall and the new building has progressed rapidly and it is now practically finished...