Word: walls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Memorial Society, an exhibition of all the objects of historic interest connected with the College that can be obtained. The society has also under consideration a series of small bronze tablets about five by twenty-five inches which may be framed in oak and sunk in the wall over the fireplace in rooms once held by famous men. These tablets would take the place of the outside tablets previously planned...
...last evening, showing views illustrating Decadent Gothic Art in Germany in the Rhenish cathedrals at Cologne and Strasburg; and Gothic influences in Italy evident in Cistertian churches at Florence and Siena. The ornate character of the decorative sculpture was clearly brought out in several views of the portals and wall panels of these buildings; and one or two designs of the famous Giotto were shown...
...history and literary and literary development of my country. The first striking figure in Russia's history is Peter the Great. He marks the moment in the nation's life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...
...twenty-two distinguished graduates who roomed in the building and the third giving the important dates in its history. The first to be erected will be one of those bearing the names of graduates. The inscriptions on the tablets in the order of their position on the outer wall of the building are as follows...
...capture of Louisburg, brought it back with them. Where it was obtained, or just how it was disposed of at first, is not known. It came into the possession of the University, however, a long time ago, and when the Library was erected, it was set in the wall of the old transept. on the side where the stack was subsequently built, and there was an inscription with it, telling the few facts of its history...