Word: walls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prehistoric times the most elementary form of the mastaba served alike as a protection to the corpse and as an altar for ancestral offerings. The grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping sides. In its centre was a deep shaft into which was lowered the corpse, and then the hole was filled...
...arranged to present the university with a portrait bust of James Russell Lowell '38, to be designed by Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the statue of "The Minte Man" at Concord. The bust, which will be completed before Commencement, will be placed in a niche i the north wall of Massachusetts Hall...
...University handball team will hold a dual meet with the Boston Young Men's Christian Union at 8 o'clock this evening in the Gymnasium. This is the first handball match Harvard has ever played. A front wall against which to play the ball has been erected at the north end of the floor, where a court has been marked out. The Harvard team will consist of D. R. Radovsky 3L., T. L. Vandeventer 3L., E. R. Brumley '07, and D. A. McLeod 2L, alternate. There will be two matches in the singles and one in the doubles, each consisting...
...charred the connecting hallways and stairs. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, spread so rapidly to the top of the building that several men who were in their rooms at the time were forced to leave by ladders or rope fire escapes. The thick connecting brick wall prevented the fire from extending to the middle entry...
Despite unfavorable weather conditions work on Emerson Hall, the new building for the Philosophical Department, has been progressing rapidly. The outside walls have been raised to the tops of the window-frames of the third story except at the western end of the building, where the main cornice has just been completed. This cornice is of limestone blocks, weighing from four to six tons each, which extend the entire thickness of the wall and jut out two feet beyond. The brick columns flanking the two entrances have been finished and all the limestone window-frames and trimmings are in position...