Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...repeated line in the announcements that heralded the Boston opening of this work: "Three Hours in Paris." The company provided by Miner and Brooks includes more thoroughly first class people than is often seen in one organization of any kind. The comedians, eight in number, are among the oldest and best known in the musical dramatic profession...
Social gatherings were few at that time and there was little literary interest. There were a few men of university education among the leaders and a few books were written in the colony. In 1621 funds were appropriated for founding a free school, which eventually became the second oldest college in America...
Writers who have been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
Professor Dorpfeld gave a brief account of the situation of Olympia, and threw on a screen pictures and plans of the buildings within the sanctuary, describing the great columns and the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus and the construction of the temple of Hera, the oldest temple in Greece. This temple was originally of wood, but was renewed little by little in marble. The careful study of its remains has finally solved the perplexing question of the origin of the Doric style of architecture. The pictures showed very clearly the varying sizes of the columns and that...
...Saviour's Church, which is situated in Wellington street, on the south, or Surrey, side of the English capital, is the oldest of the London churches. When it was built in the thirteenth century by Gifford, bishop of Winchester, it formed a part of the Augustinian Priory of St. Mary Overy, But in 1540 it was converted by Henry VIII into a parish church, and it has retained that character ever since. Reputed heretics were tried in the Lady Chapel in 1555, during the reign of "bloody" Queen Mary. In 1840 the old nave was taken down and an incongruous...