Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard, and comments on our prospects for the present season, Mr. E. K. Adams's article on "The 'Outside' Papers of Harvard," a term meant to include all the College periodicals except the five undergraduate papers, gives interesting information on a subject probably little known to undergraduates. Variety and relief are gained by an amusing ghost story by Mr. H. B. Sheahan. On the whole, the issue, though somewhat perfunctory in tone and journalistic in style, is mildly interesting and informing...
...Germanic Museum has received as a gift from the city government of Nuremberg, Germany, a cast of the relief of the town weigher from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall of that city. The cast, which is about six feet in height by eight feet wide, will be mounted on the west wall of the museum...
...relief, belonging to the year 1497, is of historical as well as artistic interest. The town-weigher stands in the midst; on his left is the merchant whose wool is being weighed, and on his right an attendant is adding weights to the scales. The whole composition is an admirable scene from German mediaeval life...
...understand that last year both the Governing Board and the trustees were opposed to the installation of a bas-relief of Dean Shaler in the Living Room. Their desire to preserve the character of the Living Room will appeal to all who are interested in its welfare. But this discouragement, by vote or by expressions of opinion, should not turn us aside from the main issue--that a memorial to Dean Shaler should be erected, and that the most fitting location for it is in the Union...
Last spring a movement was started to place a memorial to Dean Shaler in the Union. Considerable interest was manifested by graduates and undergraduates, but as the Union was unwilling to start a precedent by allowing a bas-relief to be placed in the building, this project was abandoned. It seems a pity that some form of memorial to Professor Shaler cannot be placed where it will recall his memory to all undergraduates. The bas-relief in the Scientific School and the research fund are very fitting tributes, but their scope is necessarily restricted. If a bas-relief would detract...