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Besides the present buildings, the plan embraces reservations for extensive additional building sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public ways directly communicating with the central university buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space...
...arch built of massive blocks of tufa, and supposed to be the Porta Trigemina, has been unearthed at the foot of the Aventine Hill, near the Forum, in Rome...
...enclosure formed by them will be paved with concrete. It will be divided by a boulevard running from the south to the north entrance. The arcade is designed to permit communication between the buildings without exposure to the weather. The main entrance to the court is through a memorial arch, which is to have a frieze running around the top, illustrating the progress of California. On the right and left of the arch are two story buildings-one containing the natural history collection and the other the library. When additional buildings shall be found necessary they will be built around...
...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...