Word: lintels
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...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...Hence they have made it a special practice it might almost be termed an art-of reaching out to shake the students out of their distrust and to substitute zest for lethargy. "Copey's" success has been reflected in the accomplishments of so many who passed under the low lintel of Hollis 15, and in the devotion which these men have always retained for him. They ask nothing better than that the light in the window on the top floor of Hollis Hall, which has been the signal to many generations of Harvard undergraduates that "Copey" is receiving his friends...
...present the background of the space formed by the eaves of Holden Chapel are being painted this same light blue, the elaborate scroll being left white. The same combination of colors will also be carried out on the lintel of the entrance to the chapel. Here again the background will be blue while the bas-relief oxheads will be painted in the contrasting white...