Word: spire
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...find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present the air of Massachusetts is filled with a dark...
...limited than it is at present. The number of regular attendants has grown. On a basis of the results observable at present, it may be concluded, interest in the Memorial Church has gone farther than a mere inspection of the brick and mortar, or a glimpse at the towering spire. A great church must arise from the undivided, unsollicited interest and support of a numerous and living congregation. It is in these respects that the Harvard Memorial Church is creating a distinguished history...
...spike is an almost solid tapering pole weighting eight and one half tons. It is used principally to strengthen and make the spire secure. In three sections the pole was lifted through the framework, screwed together and temporarily clamped. The appearance of a slight lean is due to the fact that it has not yet been secured in the ceiling of the rectangular room housing the old bell, now ringing from Harvard Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although...
...principal difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...
Copper and slate will be used to cover the spire, and scrolls and figures in harmony with the staid Colonial architecture will be used in decoration. A large wind-vane, erroneously called a weather vane, will be cut from copper to cap to Chapel...