Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finish of the two principal stories is to be of painted plaster. The woodwork is reduced to practical minimum, and brick walls and fire stops prevent the chances of a fire spreading. The outside walls are hollow, to assure dryness...
Part of the ceiling in Lower Massachusetts fell Tuesday morning during the recitation in History 13. The plaster fell on some empty benches and no harm was done...
...light on Semitic history. We have already many of the finest specimens of the more ancient art and literature, introducing the visitor to worlds of thought the existence of which he did not know before. The objects in the museum may be grouped into three classes, originals, photographs and plaster reproductions...
...facilities for education at Amherst are excellent. The college takes a particular pride in its large collection of plaster casts of ancient and modern sculpture which is second to none in the United States except the one in Boston. For this museum of fine art the college is indebted to Professor Richard H. Martin, who started the collection in 1874, and has been untiring in his efforts to enlarge it ever since. The chemical laboratory is not up to the modern standard, but in all the other departments of learning, ample opportunity is offered for work. The faculty. under President...
...have already a small collection of cuneiform inscriptions (the gift of Mr. Salisbury of Worcester to the Divinity School) a few plaster cuts of tablets and a cast of the famous black obelisk of the British Museum (in Sever 9). It is intended to begin immediately to add to the stock. By permission of the directors the collection will be deposited for the present in the new part of the Peabody Museum on the second floor...