Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University has received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the topographical model of the Metropolitan District of Boston, which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition. The model will be deposited in the geological exhibition room on the third floor of the new addition to the University Museum...
...model, a solid piece of plaster thirty feet in circumference, is the largest of the kind yet produced in this country and by far the most accurate. The area represented is nearly five hundred square miles, embracing the territory within a radius of twelve miles from Boston...
...model was begun in August, 1899, under the direction of G. C. Curtis, the sculptor. The work is remarkable for the accuracy of its details, which include some 250 miles of railroad, modelled to scale, 300 miles of stream; 200,000 trees, each separate; 26,000 blocks, correctly located according to maps; 2,750 miles of streets and 157,000 buildings...
...very satisfactory. It was built by Davy on very much the same lines as last year's shell, having the same fine bow and wide shallow stern. The keel is a half-inch deeper and consequently the boat is even stiffer than last year's shell of the same model...
...work will be more advanced that it has been, but elementary vocal training will be provided, to be taken either in a preceding year or in hours additional to the regular hours of the course. The work of the course will consist in the study and rendering of model speeches for acquiring the principles of platform speaking and the application of those principles to the presentation of speeches of the students' own composition. Impromptu speaking will also be practiced...