Word: slab
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON will enjoy its annual merry-go-round with the Lampoons this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the second team diamond. At the last moment the cheap-wits have hired a slab-artist who has recently been drawing a salary from the Chelsea Sufferers' Relief Fund. He will be easy glue for the CRIMSON stickers, however...
...most important object added last year is the reproduction in concrete of a sandstone slab, dating from about 1280 from the tomb of Ulrich, Baron of Regensburg. The slab, which is the gift of Dr. Angst of Zurich, was found when the old fortifications of Zurich were destroyed in 1903 imbedded face down in one of the towers. It had served as the lower shelf of an embrasure, having been carried off for building material upon the demolition of its original home, the Church of the Barefooted Augustinians. Engraved upon the slab, in the manner of the niello technique...
...remembrance of her son, Roger T. Atkinson '94, who died in November, 1902, while assistant surgeon in the United States navy. The collection consists of the following reproductions by Caproni: a bust of JuliusCaesar, the head of Hypnos, a fragment of the ancient bronze statue found in Perugia; a slab from the Parthenon frieze...
...report enumerates important acquisitions of the year, among which have been an original Assyrian inscription from King Assurnazirkal (9th century B. C.) on an elaborate slab about three feet square, and three models made at Jerusalem by Dr. Schick, a German archaeologist, who lived and studied in that city for fifty years. The model of chief value is one of Haramesh-Sherif, nine feet by eleven, and is an exact representation of the mosques and other buildings occupying the site of Solomon's Temple and Palace. The second model, of the same size, is a restoration of the Temple...
...class which has been assigned the section of the fence in the rear of Holden Chapel, will build, in addition to the fence, a sun dial to be placed for actual use behind Holden Chapel. The stone slab to support the dial has already been placed. The design for the dial has not yet been received from the architects, Messrs. McKim, Mead and White of New York...