Word: walls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Isle" high and dry. The ruins here are beautiful. Iona and Tyne Mouth were illustrated and the course of the lecture led to Canterbury. The views of this cathedral were numerous. The place here where Thomas a Becket was murdered by the knights was shown. A tablet on the wall commemorates his life and death and a small square stone marks the very spot where he is said to have fallen, The naves of this cathedral are long and high and the view showing the vista between the rows of high columns was very striking...
...Dorpfeld, the noted authority on Greek antiquities and first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage was really the support of the scenery and furnished a background for both actors and chorus who played in the orchestra. The announcement of such results attained by a trained architect as well as scholar lead Professor White, who had long been dissatisfied with the adaptablity...
Room number one in Harvard Hall has just been fitted up as a lecture room for Professor White, as the former room used by him. Sever 30, was inconveniently small. This new room has a platform built against the back wall, on which the stereopticons may be placed. The wall opposite has been painted white, for use as a screen; dark shades have been put in all the windows, and a new chandelier has been added, to be lighted by electricity...
...dirt floor of the baseball cage is now carefully raked and rolled every morning. A netting back-stop has been put up and the wall at the pitcher's end has been white-washed...
...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...