Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Aeronautical Society held its first meet of the year at Concord Saturday afternoon. The contest was open to all preparatory schools as well as colleges. There were seventeen entries of various types of model aeroplanes, the majority being of the A-frame, double propellor type. This style of machine, entered by J. L. Smith, of Medford High School, and piloted by F. T. Bates, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won first place by traveling a quarter of a mile, and was awarded the silver medal. E. H. Bean '17 took second prize by flying his machine 900 feet...
China suffers greatly from tuberculosis and is at present without any institution capable of dealing with the disease. Therefore the commission asks that the Foundation assist in the establishment of two model tuberculosis hospitals, properly equipped according to modern scientific practice...
...ruined Harvard Hall in 1764, and his house was razed by flames in Charles-town in 1775. The University erected a monument to its founder in 1884, but inasmuch as no portrait of John Harvard could be found, the sculpture used the features of a living alumnus as the model for the face...
...decoration of the four stone posts which mark the ends of the balustrade of the Anderson Memorial Bridge, I. Kirchmayer, chiefly known as an artist in wood-carving, has modelled bronze sculptural designs symbolizing Peace and War. The models, which are to be gilded, are in pyramidal form. One War model will surmount the two posts at either end of the bridge. The attributes in the composition of the War group are a Roman corselet, from an original in one of the museums in Europe decorated with martial objects in low relief; a sword and helmet, shields, Roman faces, spears...
...Hume, who will be remembered by his recent activities in the 47 Workshop and the Dramatic Club, has gathered together a collection of photographs and stage-models that illustrate, probably to a greater extent than any exhibit heretofore, the methods, advantages, and picturesque results of the modern ideas of stage-setting, Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt, foremost in the new methods in Italy, Germany, Russia, and other European countries, Joseph Urban, Livingston Platt, who contrived the settings for Miss Anglin's Shakespearean productions, and many other artists, including Leon Bakst, Fitz Erler, and Robert E. Jones will be represented...