Word: screens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of Professor Dorpfeld's third lecture last night in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum was the Acropolis of Athens. A beautiful picture of the Acropolis was thrown on the screen before the lecture began, which transported the audience in imagination to Athens, and brought before their eyes the celebrated citadel of Pallas Athena. Professor Dorpfeld, in his opening words, designated this famous spot as the place where still we get the truest conception of the surpassing beauty of Greek art. Other pictures of the Acropolis were shown, with explanatory comment on its monuments and history...
Professor Dorpfeld gave a brief account of the situation of Olympia, and threw on a screen pictures and plans of the buildings within the sanctuary, describing the great columns and the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus and the construction of the temple of Hera, the oldest temple in Greece. This temple was originally of wood, but was renewed little by little in marble. The careful study of its remains has finally solved the perplexing question of the origin of the Doric style of architecture. The pictures showed very clearly the varying sizes of the columns and that...
...Bouleuterium, the ground plan of which had the form of a ship and is still a riddle to the architects; and the palaestra and gymnasium where the athletes exercised. Countless works of art were discovered in Olympia, and beautiful pictures of many of these were thrown on the screen, the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus, the beautiful statue of Victory by Paeonius, and that masterpiece of Greek sculpture, the Hermes of Praxiteles. Besides these the museum which the Greek government has erected at Olympia contains inscriptions, articles of bronze, and terra cottas in almost bewildering number. Professor Dorpfeld...
...shoots for the Parker gun. The four shoots, which were necessary to compete the series, could not be held without running into the period of the final examinations. The club has had an altogether successful year. The club-house has been fitted up, a platform and a new screen have been built, and the team was sent to Princeton. The club has undergone all these expenses without running into debt. Next year the intercollegiate shoot will be held at the groups of the Boston Shooting Association at Wellington...
...stand is now being built on Soldiers Field for the Shooting Club. There will be three traps this year instead of one as formerly, and the pulls will be worked from the house instead of from behind a screen. The system of firing will be rapid this season and the price of birds will be reduced from 2.5 cents to 1.5 cents. It is hoped that everything will be ready for a shoot at the end of the week and when the season opens there will be two shoots a week until the every day practice just before the match...