Word: transept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Founded in September to protest the conservative bent of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 in teaching Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," a class of over 900 people. The group distributed fliers in the Memorial Hall transept before "Ec 10" lectures in Sanders Theatre...
...will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn out and replaced with argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built-in cross. And thus six days after Easter, spectators will be allowed to view an image that has grown fainter with each unveiling: the portrait of a dead...
...monument not only to the dead Harvard men of the Union Army, but to the freedom of her people as well. Her daughter, my mother, brought me as a child on the obligatory tour of Harvard to see the glass flowers and the Yard, and took me to the transept of Memorial Hall, a sacred space: old graduates took their hats off upon entering and although I cannot remember if I was impressed, I am certain that my mother was. She knew what that building meant, and so too do I. I do not require instruction on that point...
...transept, workers uncovered shiny white slabs inscribed with the names of the Union dead, also covered by years of dirt...
Likely, the bell fell through the tower during the fire and landed on the transept floor, where it broke...