Word: architects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last issue of the American Architect and Builder contains an interesting article on the statue of John Harvard, accompanied by a very fine reproduction...
President Eliot, Professor Peabody and a certain well known Boston architect staked off the grounds for the site of the new library for the Divinity School...
...many individual alumni. Already several replies have been received expressing warm sympathy with the movement and giving assurance of material aid. The executive committee of the New York Association have ordered the address printed and sent to each member. Mr. Johnes, '73, who has already volunteered to pay the architect's bill is a member of this Association...
...writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows, and a high degree of hardness they have...
...grand stand to cost over $14,000 is preposterous. The committee having the supervision of the present plans must reduce them to reasonable limits. If that is impossible, let them reject the present plans entirely and employ an architect to draw new plans, the execution of which shall not be beyond the means of the people who are to build the stand. It is necessary that a grand stand such as we need should be well made, and not a mere temporary affair, and also desirable that it should be ornamental and in keeping with its surroundings...