Word: obelisk
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Harvard might conceivably exploit the idea. The attractiveness of Memorial Hall could be enhanced by casual statues of local celebreties performing their usual functions; an obelisk glorifying the American old clothes man, a genre subject portraying a Senior preparing for Divisionals, tennis racquet in one hand and theatre tickets in the other; portrait of a Freshman donning last season's white flannels for this year's Jubilees; whole flocks of pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory...
...carried too far, than the old country store charge-account system that he knew as a boy. Asked if he approved of Rupert Hughes' views on George Washington (see p. 9), he pointed out of the window behind his desk to the aluminum tip of a white marble obelisk rising 555 ft. 5⅛ in. in the air, 3,000 ft. southward, and with a dry smile remarked: "The monument is still there...
...accounts for their devotion to football. Pigskin heroes can assume mythical proportions for eyes that have never beheld them. James Thorpe, the Indian, was a coppery comet, leaping in seven-league strides over a field of endless goal-lines; the right toe of good Charles Brickley stiffened into an obelisk for the reverence of generations; Eddie Mahan's red sweater, a football flattened against it, flamed across a continent of hushed back yards...
...Harvard dead in the late war is interesting in that it reflects the need for action on the War Memorial question. A committee is now considering the ways and means for building a suitable tribute: if it does not soon announce its decision some one will place an obelisk on the roof of Sever Hall...
...night, the dome and portico of St. Peter's and the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, which Caligula brought from Egypt, were illuminated for the first time since 1870, when the Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte...