Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...objects. In the midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere and a Venus de Medici show in one room imitations in plaster cast and in marble, models of art and of the just and fairest proportions of the human form...
...lecturer also recommended strongly wire lathing covered with plaster, which will effectually stop almost any fire. Several kinds of automatic sprinklers were shown, which are of great value in checking a fire, and are a very important invention...
...soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply to his physics or analytics - it cannot be opened. Another interesting relic in the room is a plaster cast of Cromwell's face made from the mask taken after death by the sculptor, Thomas Woolner. After passing through the hands of Carlyle and Charles Eliot Norton, it finally found a permanent resting-place in the library in 1881. If any one has any doubt as to Cromwell...
Most of the Harvard College buildings are separated into two or three portions by thick brick walls, which would act effectively against the spread of fire. In all the new building, and this includes every hall except Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton, each room has a shield of plaster entirely around it on walls, ceiling and floor, so that in case of fire in any room the smoke could not penetrate to other rooms. - [Boston Journal...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a plaster cast of Michael Angelo's famous statue of Lorenzo de Medici, called "II Pensieroso," from its attitude and look of melancholy abstraction. It is said to be the second cast ever made, the first having been secured by the South Kensington. Dr. W. S. Bigelow of Boston has given the museum another plaster cast from Michael Angelo - a "Madonna and Child," at Bruges. Casts from the Apollo, Centaurs and women figures discovered at Olympia by the German expedition in 1879 have been added to the fine series already in place. They...