Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society was held in 10 Holworthy last evening, Dr. Justin Winsor presiding. Designs were submitted from different companies for the various tablets which the society expects to erect, and a sum of money was appropriated for the erection of the first tablet. These tablets are to be erected on Massachusetts Hall, two bearing the names of twenty-two distinguished graduates who roomed in the building and the third giving the important dates in its history. The first to be erected will be one of those bearing the names of graduates. The inscriptions...
...bronze tablet commemorating the Yale-Brown game of last fall has been placed in the gymnasium of Brown University. It is inscribed "Brown 6, Yale 6. November...
...tablet "in commemoration of the courage and humanity displayed by Stephen Girard during the epidemic of yellow fever prevailing in Philadelphia in the year 1793" was unveiled in Girard College in Philadelphia on Tuesday. During the epidemic he abandoned his business and his home, and assumed the superintendence of a yellow fever hospital...
...early as 600 B. C. there was great funeral display, which Solon and other later rulers tried in vain to check. The earliest form of monument was a simple tablet, which later is found elaborately carved. They usually contain the names of the person to whom the monument is erected, his father, and those who set up the tablet. As the stones become more elaborate we find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow...
...other memorials which it is the intention of the society to erect in the course of time are a monument or marble block on the spot in front of Austin Hall where President Langdon prayed for Prescott and his men before they set out for Bunker Hill; a memorial tablet on Wadsworth House; a properly inscribed granite block on the site near Dane Hall, of the old church where Washington, Andrew Jackson and many other famous men were received; an inscription explaining the significance of the Liberty Tree; and a tablet marking the spot where the first Harvard man fell...