Word: nave
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...competent coach will be present and will give the men advice about their kicking. This tournament is open to all members of the university. The following men nave presented themselves as candidates: Fitzhugh and Bowman, '91, from 2 to 3; Potter and Jones, '90, from 4 to 5; Harding, '89, and Austin, L. S., from 5 to 6. Chadwick, L. S., Crane, '90, Dexter, '90, and Alexander, L. S., will be assigned hours as soon as possible. All other candidates will present themselves as soon as possible...
...statue disappeared about the middle of the fifth century, A. D.; at about the same time the temple came into the hands of the Christians and became a church. This necessitated some changes in the architecture. The entrance was changed to the west end, and the Hekatompedos became the nave of the church, an aps being constructed at this end of the temple. The great chamber, or Parthenon, became the antechamber of the church, and was connected with the Hekatompedos by doors cut through the solid wall which had hitherto separated them. The interior arrangement of the temple...
...probably due to the insufficient foundations laid by the builders, which caused it to settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city of Tuscany, is noted mainly for its cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world. The present edifice is only the transept, the nave having been begun but never completed. The church contains the most beautiful pulpit in Italy, and the interior is splendidly ornamented...
This is the prevailing danger of democracy, that with its intense sense of the importance of the mass, it spend all its energies in the construction of the nave while the tower remains always unfinished. To guard against this tendency, to throw all its influence against this tendency; is the great mission of this university as of every university with high aims and abilities in the land. The tendency of democracy is to make little of such purposes, to hold in slight regard in comparison with other things the means by which such purposes are attained the colleges...
...people of England itself are undemocratic,-that they, above all sections of the United States, have always recognized the importance of the higher education and that they have been the chief promoters of it in this country. "Build the tower first; and others will see to it that the nave does not remain untinished." From the founding of Harvard College in the midst of an almost unbroken wilderness until this day of universal education, this has been the experience of New England...