Word: doric
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...perfected Doric temple, by means of its slightly curved lines and unequal spacings, produces the effect of a structure with straight lines and equal spacings, the truth of the imagination far surpassing the truth of reality; and a play of Sophocles or an ode of Pindar is a literary structure to which the same painstaking care has been given. But in translation the effect of all this delicate workmanship is irretrievably lost. He who is content to study the classics in translation alone will be content to regard as Doric temples the post-office buildings, with column drums slushed...
...clubhouse is designed for living quarters and will contain a large entrance hall, a grillroom, and a spacious living room. The hall will have a limestone flooring and will be panelled in oak about three-fourths of the way up the walls, the remainder being finished in stone. Four Doric columns and the staircase on the left of the entrance will be the chief decorative features of the hall. Opposite the main door will be the entrance to the living room, and to the right, the entrance to the grillroom, which will be done with a low dado...
...additions will, from the inside, have the appearance of a Doric colonnade, in which will be 124 circular columns with typical Doric bases and capitals. These columns will be surmounted by heavy beams and a cornice. The line of columns will terminate at each end in a tower similar in plan to those now in existence. The roof of the canopy will be of concrete slabs...
...building have already been laid by the contractors, Woodbury and Leighton, between Esplanade, Wadsworth, and Amherst streets. The building will be 500 feet long, 200 feet wide, and will have a dome 114 feet high. The architect, Mr. Edward T. Graham '00, has designed the building in the Doric style. The first floor will have an arena under the dome 120 feet in diameter. Surrounding this will be a circular gallery, starting on the second floor and extending up into the dome. The second floor will also be open for a wide space running parallel with the length...