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During the summer the construction of the Hall has been carried on energetically, and men are now working on the first floor of the building. The foundations have all been laid, and the Ionic columns on the front of the building are being put into place. For the present only the central part of the southern wing will be built, and they should be completed, according to the contract, by July...
...building will be of buff Bedford limestone, and will be classic in design. The facade, which will face east, will exhibit a row of large Ionic columns, between which there will be a light screen wall filled with windows. The central part will contain the library of the school, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...
...collection of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance casts. This hall will extend upward through two stories. In the rear of the ground floor there will be a corridor, separated from the exhibition hall by Doric columns supporting the corridor of the upper floor, on which is a similar series of Ionic columns. A large lecture room, a stereopticon gallery, a smaller lecture room, a room for the display of working models and building materials, a coat room, three small rooms for instructors, and a janitor's room, will occupy the remainder of the space on the ground floor...
...tenth volume of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, edited by a committee of professors in the classical department, has appeared recently. The contents are as follows: "Some Questions in Latin Stem Formation," by Professor Greenough; "The Mouthpiece of the Flute," by Professor Howard; "The Ionic Capitals in Asia Minor," by Dr. W. N. Bates '90, instructor in the classical department of the University of Pennsylvania; "The Symbolism of the Apple in Classical Antiquity," by Doctor B. O. Foster, now at the American School of Classical Studies at Rome; "Greek Shoes in the Classical Period," by A. A. Bryant...
...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...