Word: roof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the enormous steel roof trusses was swung into place yesterday at the new Boston Arena on St. Botolph street. The width from end to end of the trusses will be 140 feet, and the height from the apex to the surface of the ice will be 75 feet...
...Doric colonnade, in which will be 124 circular columns with typical Doric bases and capitals. These columns will be surmounted by heavy beams and a cornice. The line of columns will terminate at each end in a tower similar in plan to those now in existence. The roof of the canopy will be of concrete slabs...
...generally understood that Professor Lowell is in favor of an exclusively Freshman dormitory, big enough for all the members of the class. If this could be established, the question of Freshman unity would be settled once and for all. With the whole class lodged under one roof, with a suitable common room for a general meeting place, the members would soon become acquainted, and many friendships would be formed immediately which now take about four years to develop. But it will undoubtedly be some time before this ideal is realized, and another method should be devised for use until that...
...seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek excellence is natural, and to learn, if only from the living instance before us, that it can be achieved...
According to the plans drawn by Freeman, Funk & Willcox, the building will be 400 feet long by 170 feet wide, with a roof 90 feet high, and a tower over the entrance 150 feet high. The material of construction will be concrete reinforced by steel trusses and faced with terra cotta. The auditorium will have a permanent seating capacity of 5000, with the seats arranged in the arena pit form, and the ice surface about 6 feet below the level of the main lobby. Access to the ice will be afforded by four large passageways leading from a wide promenade...