Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each of the four posts is to bear on its face fronting the approach to the bridge, a pink marble tablet bearing an inscription in bronze Roman capitals, each inscription to be different from the others. Above the inscription on two of them will be the coat of arms of the Society of the Cincinnati the the badge of the Legion of Honor and the seal of the Society of the Spanish War. On the other two tablets will be the seal of the University. The inscription on the Cambridge end up-stream will read as follows...
...poets best known works, in front of which is set on a projecting pedestal, a bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting Miles Standish, Sandalphon, the village blacksmith, the Spanish student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. The tablet is in Renaissance style, and is exquisitely shaped and carved. The low relief figures, especially that of Sandalphon, the angel of Glory and Prayer, represent the highest exemplification of of the game should compare favorably with that of any future opponent...
...which is set on a projecting pedestal a Bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting the characters in Longfellow's poems, Miles Standish, Sandolphon, the Village Blacksmith, the Spanish Student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. The tablet is in Renaissance style, and is exquisitely shaped and carved...
...apparatus room, for the storing of delicate and senstitive apparatus; and two rooms for, the assistant in charge of the building. The balance rooms throughout the Laboratory are protected from the outside walls by passageways, which make them highly efficient in preserving delicate scales from weather disturbances. A memorial tablet and bust of Professor Wolcott Gibbs, the former chief chemist of the Lawrence Scientific School, in whose honor the building was named have been placed on the left wall of the entrance hallway...
That the present year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the building of Holworthy Hall is perhaps not so well known as it should be by the men who daily pass the tablet which relates the story of its founding. Professor Palmer has often spoken of the absurdity, according to present-day standards, of the University's raising money to build a dormitory by investing in a state lottery. Times change; but we are glad at any rate to have Holworthy Hall and proud to know that she has now served Harvard well for a century...