Word: relief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Conference meeting was held last night in Sever 11. Professors as well as students from all departments of the university comfortably filled the hall to listen to Professor Everett, of the Divinity school, on "The Relief in immortality." It is not often that the students have an opportunity to hear Professor Everett, but the meeting last evening showed that the committee when it comes, As thoroughly appreciated. In beginning Professor Everett stand his willingness to answer any questions that any in the audience might ask him, after the end of his talk. He first took up the relation...
...lecturer was therefore one of about 250 years. A number of monuments of the sixth century have been preserved. They show the rudeness and stiffness of archaic art. The design is very simple consisting of tall narrow slab, with a single figure of the dead man in relief, and always in profile. There is usually also an inscription in the slab, often in meter...
...Boston Post of yesterday published a very interesting and fairminded editorial on Harvard, her present success and her possibilities. It is always a distinct relief to find our university truthfully represented, and particularly to learn that the most sever critics of the century, the newspapers, are glad to give credit when and where it is due. It is undeniable that there are mistakes made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best...
...class of 1879 is having made a high-relief bronze of Dr. McCosh at a cost of $13,009. It is the design of Augusta St. Guadens, and the artist says that it is one of the best things he has ever done. It will probably be placed in the Marquand Chapel...
...most interesting portioh of the ruins is the wall, about thirty-five feet long, which runs along a portion of the front of the stage. It is interesting because it appeals to the eye, being decorated with groups of sculptures in high relief representing Bacchnalian scenes...