Word: architect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seats. They would prefer to have the baseball diamond on the football field with the same seats for both. The opinion of students was asked for, and was unanimously against the plan. Professor Hollis then showed with the aid of a map a scheme devised by Mr. Peabody, the architect, by which the fields would be separate but the seats would be in line and those of the diamond would continue in a curve behind the backstop. The running trach would enclose the football field. This met with the approval of Captain Dean and Captain Vincent...
...called Theseum-edifices which exhibit the order in its perfection; and then raised the question as to the origin of the Doric temple. According to the traditional belief, the Doric temple in its finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek 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...
This evening Professor Doerpfeld gives the last lecture in the series. His topic is "The Doric Temple,"- a subject upon which, both as architect and archaeologist, he speaks with great authority...
...late Professor Ernst Curtius to carry out the plan. During the years 1875-1881 the entire sanctuary and the places immediately adjacent were laid bare, at the expense ($200,000) of the German government. For four years Professor Dorpfeld was charged with the conduct of the excavations as supervising architect...
Nearly all are acquainted with the career of Dr. Dorpfeld. From Greece itself through the islands of the Aegean Sea to the coast of Asia Minor there is scarcely a place of interest with which he has not made himself familiar. He was trained as an engineer and architect. From 1877-1881, under appointment from the German government, he assisted in the excavations at Olympia. Since then he has devoted all his energies to original investigations which have brought before the public with a vividness never before possible the glories of ancient Greece. After his work at Olympia he carried...