Word: circular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lawrence Hall, facing the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Harvard brick and marble have been used in the construction itself, while tiles have been used for hall floors. There are two entrances and porches, one on the west and the other on the north side; the west porch being of semi-circular design, while the one to the north is rectangular and upheld by pillars. On the first floor, besides the vestibules, coat-rooms, and the office, there are two recitation rooms, one large lecture room, and the practice hall for the University Glee Club. Upstairs, together with several offices...
...committee has recently been named for the formation of a national association of university professors, an organization that aims to strengthen the conception of the professors' status. Its purpose is indicated by a circular letter lately sent out by the Johns Hopkins professors. The purport of this letter was that the university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian...
Lack of available funds threatens to seriously delay the completion of the Yale Bowl, which was expected to be finished in time for the Harvard-Yale game next fall. A circular appeal to graduates requesting funds so that the structure may be finished in time, has been sent out by the committee in charge of the construction...
...this new structure. Mr. David Dagget, secretary of the committee, disposing of two other possibilities as follows: "The word 'amphitheatre' does not quite express the idea of the new structure, as Greek amphitheatres did not have seats below the level of the ground; the building is neither oval nor circular, but elliptical. The same objections will apply which has often been suggested. The arena in a Roman amphitheatre applied only to the area on which the shows were executed, and this was generally sanded; the name was derived from that portion of the ground. The word 'Bowl' has the added...
...Harvard brick and marble are the construction materials, and tile is to be used for the floors of the foyer. There are to be two entrances and porches, one on the west and the other on the north side of the building; the west porch will be of semi-circular construction, while that to the north is rectangular and upheld by pillars. On the first floor there will be, besides the vestibule, coat room and secretary's room, a large foyer from which a broad staircase leads to the second floor; and two small and two large class rooms...