Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...street and houses. The relief will be cut in American Travertine stone of the same color as the limestone used for the trimmings and ornaments of the Gate. The tower will be thrity-six feet high and eight feet square at the base. The inscription will be on a tablet set in the Quincy street face of the tower...
...right-hand tablet at the north approach reads...
...Harvard Memorial Society has placed a tablet in the post of the Yard fence adjoining Wadsworth House, to indicate the site of the two earliest College buildings, the foundations of which were discovered in December, 1909, and February, 1910, in the course of the excavations in Massachusetts avenue for the Cambridge subway. For a few hours the stones were to be seen in their original places after having been covered for more than 275 years; then they disappeared therefrom forever, and one more link with the past was broken. But the exact position of the stones was measured and recorded...
...tablet bears the following inscription...
...Graduate Board of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has taken a step calculated to stimulate interest in that organization, and to extend its influence into the schools. Beginning with next year, a tablet in bas relief will be bestowed upon the school whose graduates enter the University with the highest standing. At the end of ten years this trophy will remain in the permanent possession of the school in whose hands it has been placed the greatest number of times. From year to year, the names of the different successful institutions will be appended to the tablet...