Word: transepts
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...built on the spot of the miracle of loaves & fishes. Long buried under seven feet of clay, this basilica was unearthed last week by Rev. Evarist Andrea Mader, director of the German Oriental Institute (Roman Catholic) of Jerusalem. The ruin is 170 ft. long, with a 66-ft. transept. Under the altar is a stone which apparently marks the spot of the miracle. In front are mosaics of serpents, sea birds, plants and lotus flowers. Behind are shown the loaves & fishes, with a sort of basket which is presumably one of the twelve in which the leftovers were gathered...
...Pershing and ex-Senator Pepper. But it is Bishop Freeman, chiefly, who gets the gifts. Biggest givers include: the late Rug Manufacturer Alexander Smith Cochran of Yonkers ($1,510,000 for the College of Preachers) ; the late Banker George Fisher Baker ($750,000 for the completion of the North Transept); the late Realtor & Mrs. Archibald D. Russell of New York ($500,000 for the apse); the late Minister to Austria-Hungary John A. Kasson of Washington ($554,300 for general maintenance); Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Prince of Boston ($215,000 for a chapel in memory of their son Norman...
Harvard has had a great record in these loyalties, although Memorial hall, which symbolized some of them, seems to have faded out of the uses of the university. Older Harvard men found something worthly in the tablets of its transept, but probably the editors of the Crimson would be bored. The young liberals are naturally the most vocal of student groups and may give an impression of a university which its normal thought does not support, but the impression is created of immaturity manifest as snobbery. If it should be a reflection of an entire student body it would question...
...north transept of St. Peter's was screened off. Brussels carpets covered extra pews. Primates and Cardinals, Archbishops and mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
...avoid confusion, the Seniors and their guests are requested by the Dance Committee to enter by the South Door and leave by the North Door. In case of rain, chairs will be moved from the Delta into the Hall and Transept...