Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lying close to the intellectual heart of the House are the tutorial opportunities and the University's most comfortable (and largest) House library. Both institutions bear witness to the bustle in the air--the library employs a revolutionary landmark as its quarters while the tutors breathe life into a dying tutorial ideal by offering special review courses in three fields. Professor Mason Hammond '25, and Senior Tutor Paul Vivisaker top a staff that boasts youth and versatility...
That kind of long-range thinking lay behind the familiar symbol of British world leadership-the Houses of Parliament with the coal barges coming up the Thames (see cut). The old landmark of worldwide organization was fading. Was the U.S. ready to take its place...
...Kansas City Star, recovering from the first shutdown in its 66 years, knew just how they felt: it always does. In its Midwestern heartland the Star is much more than an institution: it is part of the bloodstream, a landmark as indigenous as the Kaw River, waving wheat, stubbled prairie, Prohibition and Republicanism...
...many historical treasures that have been assimilated into the body of a great University, few have become as routine a part of undergraduate goings and comings as Hicks House. Far from gathering dust and receiving little attention save that of baedekering schoolmarms, this old Cambridge landmark is functioning today as a comfortable and busy library for members of Kirkland House. In the very place where idle upperclassmen now lounge in the midst of an 18th century philosophy collection," a forebearer of the Hicks family once slipped out of a winter's night to dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor...
...Priceless Heirloom." Knutson's headquarters detachment, meanwhile, had been busy with that "priceless heirloom: the only building in America that brings us in contact with the Middle Ages." Holand reviews the several theories on the origin of the Newport landmark, including the widely accepted one that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson...