Word: walls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appropriate background. The intersection of the two unequal wings is marked by a massive tower, that dominates the entire group and is the most striking decorative feature of its external design. The rectangle between the two wings is to be developed as an ornamental courtyard enclosed by a garden wall, with cloister-like arcades upon two sides. The Romanesque Hall is about seventy feet long with a vaulted ceiling supported by pillars forming alcoves; and a cast of the "Golden Gate" to Freiberg Cathedral as its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond, which sufficiently represents...
...Yale Corporation has announced a gift to the university of a building for the School of Music, as a memorial to the late Albert Arnold Sprague, of Chicago, a graduate of the class of 1859. The building will be erected on the corner of College and Wall streets, and will contain a library, lecture and practice rooms, and a concert hall. The architect will be Mr. C. A. Coolidge, who designed the freshman dormitories here...
Professor Sabine, the chairman of the Building Committee used the room in question last year for experiments in acoustics. It is unusually large and will be given even more light by the cutting of two new windows in the south wall. Except during the morning when classes will be held there, the Glee Club will have the room for its own purposes...
...subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague as to be positively obscure...
...rally will open with a parade and review of all the scouts, of whom there are 2500 in the greater Boston district. Following the parade the events proper will be held, among which will be contests in wall-scaling, fire building, signalling, bridge building, and knot-tieing. There will also be demonstrations of first-aid work, wireless signalling, setting up of temporary encampments and numerous forms of drills. Only the best men from each district will participate in these competitions...