Word: tower
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...Princeton, wanted the graduate school, which was originally called "Merwick" in the English fashion, to be a component part of the university. Dean West besought the trustees to establish it as an independent institution. Dean West won, so far as the location of the school was concerned. Cleveland Tower stands on an eminence half a mile from Nassau Hall. But the name "Merwick" was dropped and the Princeton Graduate School is subject today to the faculty, trustees and president of Princeton University...
Homer Croy, author of "West of the Water Tower" and the recent published "Fancy Lady", has spoken of modern religion with an agreeable un-assertiveness in an interview published yesterday in the Herald. Sounding the death knell of the clergyman and predicting the early disappearance of what he calls the "Sunday School kind of religion. Mr. Croy is the herald of a replacing social philosophy. This theory is especially interesting when he declares that Sinclair Lewis is not the only thinker to share it: rather, almost all the young American intelligentsia, even including members of the clergy like a John...
...Junior line-up follows: M. S. Dalin l.e.: C. R. Keene, l.t.: W. S. Tower, Jr., l.g.: W. A. McCausland, c.: Richard Weiler, rg.: H. F. Godfrey r.t.: D. T. Fuller, r.e.: J. H. Morris, q.b.: Joseph Lifrak, l.h.b.: H. G. Slater, r.h.b.: R. E. Garrity...
...foundations of the cathedral, great and thick, have been laid. When the building is completed it will be a large Gothic, cross-walls supported by flying buttresses, a great central tower, two towers at the west entrance, a nave 500 feet long, 95 feet high. Under the apse, which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others...
...surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet of Washington Cathedral, which ranks eighth in size among the cathedrals, of the world. The central tower of St. John the Divine will rise to a height of 400 feet as compared with the height of that of Washington? 262 feet...