Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Library Committee has placed a large bronze tablet in commemoration of old Gore Hall on the front of the Widener Library near the northwest corner. At the bottom of the tablet is an embossed etching representing the old Gore Hall, which for many years held the University library...
...building was built in the year 1838 and named in honor of Christopher Gore 1776. The architect for the building was Richard Bond and the supervisor was Daniel Treadwell'54. The inscription on the tablet is the following...
...Andover Theological and the University Divinity Schools are to dedicate a memorial tablet for Merrill Stanton Gaunt at the Andover Seminary Building on Francis Avenue next Tuesday at 3.30 o'clock. Gaunt received his degree from the Andover school in February of 1916, and immediately sailed for France to enter the American Ambulance Service. After a few weeks in this work he contracted spinal meningitis and died...
...tablet is dedicated by the friends of Gaunt, but especially those students who knew him while he was in Cambridge. Helen Jackson, a pupil of Bela Pratt, is the sculptor who designed the memorial. Admittance to the services will be by invitation...
...that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more, and if by chance the list includes the name of some famed man the room brings a ridiculous rental from a rich student...