Word: mems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since Mem Hall has never been cleaned before, the project will be quite extensive. The stonework on the roof and walls needs repair, the stained glass windows need cleaning, and missing parts have to be replaced...
...effort to restore the building as accurately as possible, researchers studied the original paint colors and stoneworking methods that were used in Mem Hall's construction. When workers replace the worn stone and brick, they attempt to replicate the original colors of the stone and even of the mortar in between the bricks. They also use stone cutting processes similar to the original techniques...
...restoration's most dramatic change will be the replacement of Mem Hall's missing gargoyles. Each of the building's four towers was originally inhabited by one of these creatures, but only two of them remain. One of the missing gargoyles currently resides in the Fogg Art Museum and the other has never been found, Riley said...
...HANDS OF THE SIGN INTERPRETER were somehow more captivating than the actual words spoken by the women on the steps of Mem Church. Almost everyone there was familiar with the statistics being reeled off on rape and sexual harassment, but the signer gracefully translated them into emphatic motions. Her hands, with their eloquent, forceful silence, reminded me of why I had come...
Come September, the acceptance-seeking frosh is not going to give himself away by appearance or age; rather, the Yardling will make his mistake by confusing Mem Church with Mem Hall (which is a dead ringer for a cathedral anyway, with Michael Sandel as high priest), or reacting with a blank look when someone asks him for his bursar's card, or confusing a gov jock and a crew jock...