Word: size
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...actual size photograph on linen of the international chess trophy offered by Mr. Isaac L. Rice of New York has just been received by the Chess Club. The trophy, is a silver cup, having at its top the arms of England, with the English and American flags crossed below. Beneath, supported by two female figures, is a globe showing two hemispheres connected by a cable. Below the globe is represented the American eagle, and on a shield which forms the background of the whole are, on one side, the shields of the four American universities, and on the other those...
...feet; and beyond it, in the east end of the building, is a rowing tank, 51 by 28 feet. Boat racks will be placed on the walls of the rowing room. On the other side of the main hall is a second workshop, of the same size, as the first, which will be need, in part, as a storage room. In the west end of the building will be a second rowing tank similar to that in the east end. On the river side is a wide piazza over 55 feet long. Between the piazza and the main hall...
...closing address was made by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts. He compared the present size of the society with that which it had when Harvard was smaller and the meetings were held in the basement of University Hall. In the growth of the society with the University there is great encouragement. The danger that exists from over-development of the intellectual faculties to the exclusion of religion can be successfully met by engaging a work like that which the St. Paul's Society provides...
...back and on certain main folds. Her sandals are golden, as is all that can be seen of the aegis which she wears on her breast. The platform on which the figure stands is opalescent white, while the column has a golden tone, shot with green. In size, the window is seven feet seven inches high and five feet wide. On the front of the platform is the simple statement, "In memory of G. C. Felton...
...second collection is a more interesting one, both by reason of its size and of its special object. The library of Charles Schefer, a noted French editor and writer, was sold last May in Paris. It was rich in books on the history of Turkey and on the Eastern question, a subject in which M. Schefer was an acknowledged authority. Through the kindness of Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, the Library was able to bid at the sale and purchased 529 volumes. These make a notable beginning of a collection on the Eastern question, which Mr. Lane intends to make...