Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stadium, the kaleidoscopic scenes will become part of a tender and ever youthful memory. And as the events of the day march by, he looks forward with growing delight to the last scene of all--the refreshing shower that falls upon his parched brow as the clock of Memorial Tower strikes midnight. In fact, as the poet has so aptly said...
...When he is successful, which is perhaps as often as not, it is generally by reason of the number of sleuths employed and the volume of evidence collected. Induction, in other words, has as much to do with it as deduction. Detectives fall in cases like that of High-tower, or of William Taylor, not because they are incapable of reasoning processes similar to those of Holmes, but because, as Chesterton says, clues never point one way, after the convenient manner of the clues Dr. Doyle plotted for his hero...
...building will consist of three main divisions. In addition to a 45 foot arcade, on the ground floor is a small museum for the treasures of the Library. To the right lie the administrative offices and to the left the belfry tower which will dominate the surrounding country. A monumental stairway leads to the second story, on which is the Catalogue and Distributing Room, situated in the very heart of the building, connecting the Reading Room, which occupies the entire front, with the stack, occupying the entire rear, thus giving the most economical and efficient service possible. Twelve Seminars...
...materials which will be used in the construction of the building are a white local stone with a creamy tint and red brick. The roof will be of blue slate with copper flashings and it will have three rows of small dormers, giving a pleasing national touch. The belfry tower, which will contain special chimes and the front portal will have many gilded details characteristic of Brabant...
...which distinctly recalls to us a blessing so long ours that we of Cambridge have almost unconsciously made it a part of our lives, would be but to repeat in far less happy phrase. All who think straight and see clear know that the memorial of this man will tower, lofty and serene, among the records not only of his great contemporaries but also of the great Americans of all time, when we who have had the privilege of his friendship, who admire, reverence, and love him, are forgotten "dust the dust among". Only in the perspective of posterity will...