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...Alpha Delta Phi Society has recently presented to the Classical Museum a chariot, which was used at the Greek Play last June. Professor A. A. Howard '82 gave an ancient Greek strigil from Aegina and a bit of mosaic from the vase of Chalydon. A collection of native terra cottas from the neighborhood of Rome was received from Dr. A. S. Pease, and several specimens of Roman building stone were given by the Mineralogical museum. Mr. George S. Pfeiffer donated a number of photographic negatives...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Chronology of the Works of Boethius." Mr. A. P. McKinlay. "Votive Terra-Cottas in the Museum of Classical Antiquities." Dr. G. H. Chase. "Classical Periodicals." Professor Morgan, Sever...
...Classical Department has recently acquired a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities from Dr. George J. Pfeiffer of Watertown. These antiquities include samples of building materials, marbles, vases, Roman lead pipes, terra cottas, and other objects. The collection is being arranged in Sever and will be opened at a meeting of the Classical Conference in December. Dr. G. H. Chase, who has been appointed curator of classical antiquities by the Corporation, will have charge of this collection...
...building materials, brick, stone, marble and granite were unable to stand the severe tests put upon them. Concrete and terra cotta offered the greatest resistance. Concrete, however, was not exhaustively tested, and terra cotta contains clay, which expands when heated. The ideal material must be at once cheap, hard, flexible and abundant. No city has enough fireproof buildings; thus no city is exempt from such fires as the Baltimore fire...
...number of objects of ancient Greek and Egyptian art in bronze, terra-cotta and gold, indefinitely loaned by Mr. James Loeb '88, are on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. They include nineteen small bronze figures, including those of Heracles, Aphrodite, Hermes and Eros, two glass cinerary urns, several vases and a number of gold ornaments and engraved stones...