Word: screen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Among the summer improvements in University buildings, the extensive alteration and redecoration of the interior of Appleton Chapel is the most important. The former screen has been replaced by an entirely new partition, and the pulpit and reading-table have been remodelled...
...conservative and formalistic, he desired to point out that they have not been unprogressive. He instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion of the solid wall of masonry which originally separated the celebrants from the congregation, into a light screen, together with the substitution of the idea of spiritual sacrifice for the actual slaughter of beasts. Furthermore, President Eliot said, the Catholic Church was not estranged from science: this was shown by the recent establishment of the Carney Hospital in Boston. Although this institution has been in operation only...
Besides relating many interesting and exciting experiences with this animal, he will show on the screen many remarkable snap-shots of bears, when unconscious of his presence, and pictures taken at moments of great danger. There will be shown one picture of a grizzly taken by the animal himself...
This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth...
...building will be of buff Bedford limestone, and will be classic in design. The facade, which will face east, will exhibit a row of large Ionic columns, between which there will be a light screen wall filled with windows. The central part will contain the library of the school, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...