Word: tufa
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...rest of the number maintains an excellent average, "Class Spirit," by R. Derby '03, is a short and true account of the development of a class, written in a straight forward manner with convincing earnestness. Two stories, "Tufa," by L. M. Crosbie '04, and "The Night College House Burned," by S. A. Welldon '04, are both unusually good bits of narrative. The first is a trifle squalid, perhaps, and is a not altogether new idea, but is most skillfully put together, rapid and full of vivid color and incident. The second has a distinct Cambridge atmosphere, is convincing in spite...
...arch built of massive blocks of tufa, and supposed to be the Porta Trigemina, has been unearthed at the foot of the Aventine Hill, near the Forum, in Rome...