Word: arching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should not be for merely useful purposes, but also for an ornament and a pride to future generations. It should be sufficiently high to allow the passage of tugs and barges underneath. It should have some memorials of illustrious men and great events - a statue of John Harvard, an arch to Wendell Phillips, or a tower to Longfellow. The estimated cost of the present plan is $416,000. A suitable bridge would cost a million more, but a mean structure is the worst extravagance, and the extra money could easily be obtained by appropriations and subscriptions. The wealthy residents...
Assyrian art is a much more promising field for the student to work in than Babylonian art. It offers both in sculpture and architecture more novel and more attractive developments. The Assyrians introduced the arch and the column into their architecture and thus made possible more beauty and diversification of structure...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria, - History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Nineveh and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace; its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus...
...discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace: its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capital. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. Industrial arts...
...celebration approached, extensive and tasteful arrangements were also made by the Undergraduates for the decoration of the College edifices. The entrance to Harvard Hall, and the porticos of Dane and University Halls, were wreathed with evergreens and flowers; and arches decorated in the same manner were erected over the three principal entrances to the College grounds. The name of Harvard was placed over the centre arch, between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, while those of Dunster and Chauncy, the first two Presidents of the University, surmounted respectively the two side arches. Arrangements were also made for a general illumination...