Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...front for the Co-operative's main store in the Square. The CRIMSON prints today a reproduction of the preliminary sketch submitted to the Directors by the architects, Messrs. Newhall and Blevins of Boston. The present plans provide for an entrance to the store on the street level with considerable spaces reserved for show windows. The facade is of Harvard brick with white marble trimmings. It is proposed also to erect an addition in the rear of the present store, thus greatly increasing the available floor space. When the reconstruction plans are completed, the Co-operative's building will extend...
...that "the opinions of the professional critics are no longer of any worth even as individual opinions," and that "as it (Professional musical criticism) now exists it is utterly useless", is to imply the non-existence of the type --lamentably rare, it is true--of well-trained, level-headed professional musical critic--a manifest injustice to the few distinguished men without whom the profession would indeed be discredited...
...July and since then the work has progressed steadily and the structure will probably be ready for the Harvard-Yale game next fall The "Bowl" is unique in plan. The playing field is 26 feet below the surface of the ground and the slope from this to the ground level is cut into broad low steps which are protected by a granolithic covering like a sidewalk or curb. Upon these are placed wooden benches with backs and foot-rests, while above these rise the tiers of seats in the "Bowl" proper. There are to be thirty-two entrance tunnels besides...
...only one which can be applied satisfactorily to this new structure. Mr. David Dagget, secretary of the committee, disposing of two other possibilities as follows: "The word 'amphitheatre' does not quite express the idea of the new structure, as Greek amphitheatres did not have seats below the level of the ground; the building is neither oval nor circular, but elliptical. The same objections will apply which has often been suggested. The arena in a Roman amphitheatre applied only to the area on which the shows were executed, and this was generally sanded; the name was derived from that portion...
...received from fourteen colleges including Brown, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State College, Princeton, Syracuse, Yale, and the College of the City of New York. Last year the event was won by Harvard. The course is about six miles long and comparatively level. Each team will run seven men, the first five of which to finish will figure in the score...