Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the week one to be long remembered with fond associations. The Pot Pourri made its annual appearance last Wednesday and surprised us with a new and handsome cover. Among the new illustrations the most prominent are cuts of the eleven, Glee Club, Banjo Club, and the new Cloister building, now in process of erection. The junior appointment list has been published and includes eighty-four men. The following seventeen who received a philosophical or high oration appointment have been taken into Phi Beta Kappa: Lester Bradner, jr., J. R. Ensign, W. A. McQuaid, O. H. Richardson, Ferdinand Schwill...
...college building which ex-Governor Leland Stanford is erecting in California is 600 feet long and 200 feet wide. It is in the form of a hollow square with a cloister 1,700 feet long. It is one story high and is designed after the style of the old Spanish missions which are among the most beautiful pieces of architecture in America...
...little hall on the corner of College and Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...
...building connected with Yale university's wide society system; but when the new building of the Stone Trust Company is completed, the "Wolf's Head building will occupy the second place. The new building will be one of the finest, if not the finest in the city. The new cloister will stand on the corner of Hillhouse avenue and Grove street, in the vacant lot nearly opposite the old Sheffield property. The cellar is already dug, and a large force of men is at work on the superstructure, which will be 64 feet 6 inches long, 37 feet 6 inches...
...Bologna was primarily a corporation of law students, the University of Paris grew from the association of teachers of scholastic philosophy. The Crusades had set in motion the religious and moral sentiments of Europe, which greatly agitated the masses. This gave an extensive impulse to the teaching of the cloister and Episcopal schools, of which Paris by various circumstances became the centre and embodiment. In Paris all teachers came directly under the power of the chancellor of the chapter of Notre Dame de Paris. This was quite different from Bologna, where the schools and the town were both new, while...