Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been repealed. There is no more ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these bells...
Opening its second season, the German Club will meet at eight o'clock this evening in the Lowell House Tower Room under the direction of James M. Hawkes '26, instructor in German. Several lectures by visiting men and members of the club will be given during the course of the year on politics, art, and literature...
...table. Because Lily died in 1929, because there are many conservative souls who vividly recall her goings on, because the memorial was erected with her own money, and finally because its site is the most prominent in all San Francisco, for many months there was agitation against erecting the tower at all. At the last minute the Park Commission bowed to the extent of changing the name from Coit Memorial Tower to Coit Tower. But no lady ever more richly deserved a lighthouse...
Contrary to popular impression, money for the Coit Tower was left not for a personal memorial but to the city Art Commission "to expend the same in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...program for the coming year by which the Liberal Club aims to keep in contact with outside organizations was outlined last night at a meeting of the club in Lowell House tower room. Among the points in the program is a plan to investigate the effects of the N.R.A. in Cambridge...