Word: summits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CORNELL.The new library building now being erected at Cornell will be the finest building of the kind in America. It will stand on the very summit of the hill and will be the most conspicuous object on the campus. The first story will be of Michigan red stone, and the entire upper part of Ohio white stone. The main building will be in the form of a cross with a tower twenty feet square and one hundred and seventy-two feet high at the end of the arms. In the tower will be placed the university clock and chimes...
...Udostheera's kingdom but he is not content, and abdicates. With his wife, four brothers, and a black dog, who is justice in disguise, he goes towards a sacred mountain for meditation. On the road all his companions except the dog drop dead, and these-two-soon reached the summit. A golden chariot arrives to take Undostheera to Heaven; he, however, steadfastly refuses to go without the dog. Justice leaves his disguise and Undostheera ascends to Heaven. Here he is greatly disappointed at not finding the souls of his relatives, and soon leaves Heaven by the Sinner's Grove...
...buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower is 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...
...undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached...
...morning of the 8th of September, 1836, a white banner, on which the device of the first seal of the University was emblazoned, was raised on the summit of the pavilion. At an early hour all the avenues leading from the city of Boston and its environs to Cambridge were thronged; and by nine o'clock the Alumni and invited guests, to the number of more than fifteen hundred, assembled in University Hall...