Word: wood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FLERSHEM, Sec.'VARSITY GLEE CLUB.- A special car will leave Harvard square tonight at 6 o'clock for Music Hall. The following men must attend: Woodruff, Fairbanks, Canterbury, Ullman, Lane, Valentine, Dobyns, Sharkey, Ward, Hastings, Turner, Wadsworth, Wood, McKittrick, Huntress, Robinson, Harris, Kingsbury, Lehman, Clarkson, Dexter, Bacon, Taylor, Osborne, Gilder, Coleman, Denison, Heilman...
...regular meeting of the Board last evening in the sanctum on Linden street, one business editor and three regular editors were elected to membership. Howard Wood, Jr., '98, was elected a business editor; S. L. Pitts '97, R. F. Maynard '98 and J. A. Macy '99, regular editors...
...architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown that the Roman architect Vitruvius was in the main right in deriving the Doric temple from structures in wood. Evidences for the theory were found in the ground plans of such buildings as the Megaron and in the palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings. By the aid of numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms...
Writers who have been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
Umpire, Puffer; Refere, Gerrish Newell; Linesman, Wood. Touchdowns-Warren, Cabot, Cozzens, Dunlop, Sargent. Goals from touchdowns-Cabot, Dunlop 2. Safety-Wesleyan...