Word: classical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest as the department is new and did not get fairly started before this year. Most of the work is by first year students and is in elementary architectural drawing. The subjects of the plates are the Doric, Onic and Corinthian orders and some small buildings, - all taken from classic examples. The work is very creditable for first year students. Several students have taken the second year course in original design. The artistic rendering of the drawings is particularly attractive. Besides these there are numerous small plates and sketches...
...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...this level a platform with a railing will surround the drum of the dome, which will be of classic proportions, and whose summit will be 136 feet above the upper terrace and 152 feet above One Hundred and Sixteenth street, at the main entrance to the grounds...
...motive of the southern portico will be echoed on the eastern, western and northern ends of the cross by means of deep pilasters, and the internal angles will be adorned with richly-molded classic windows with consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of the portico will give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls will be decorated with marble pilasters, which will support a richly-paneled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly...
...strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred to the Pudding before; for what could be more appropriate? An old and much-honored club of university undergraduates would seem almost predestined to this sort of wild caricature of the classic in its theatrical doings; the whole genre has an academic flavor which should have recommended it to the Pudding long ago. Here is real burlesque, worthy of the name, a caricature of something; not the inane and insane business that has usurped the name of burlesque of late years, and is really...