Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...makers, Messrs. Shreve, Crump and Low Co., of Boston, will have the plaster model ready for the inspection of the committee in a few weeks. If this model is approved the work will then be hurried on rapidly...
...staircase to the reading room. This new apartment vestry in the upper stack, will have a new roof for its ceiling, which will have a skylight running its whole length. This roof will be as far above the floor of the new reading room, as the suspended plaster ceiling was above the old one. The windows will be stripped of their old tracery and diamond lights, and fitted with clear glass. Tables with reading rack and swivel chairs will give space for readers twice in number of those hitherto accommodated. There will also be ample space for current periodicals...
tf.EVERY student should have some plaster statuary in his room, forming a pleasant contrast to the pictures. A large assortment of reliefs, busts and statues at Olsson's, 3 Harvard...
...enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee...
SIGNET.- I have in my possession several medallions (both bronze and plaster) of the Signet, which I shall be glad to sell. The prices are,- bronze, $2.50; plaster, 60 cents. Any past or present member of the Signet may buy one. Will the '94 men who ordered medallions kindly come at once and get them...