Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Church of St. Nicholas, which stood on a hill in the town, once served as a landmark for incoming vessels by day, and there is a legend that at night two great carbuncles set in the walls of the church flamed forth like beacons. The most interesting ruins are those of the Church of the Holy Ghost, a peculiar eight-sided building of two stories...
Several recitation rooms will also be added. This will also be a valuable acquisition to the department of music, which has grown so much in the last year as to need new quarters. The church is a landmark in the city, having been built...
...show a lively interest, not only in the class, but in old Harvard itself. It was the first occasion on which they had met as a body. It is the one time in the whole four years of college life which they will look back upon as a landmark, about which to group so many of their college associations and experiences. If, then, the affair had been a half-hearted one they could only have carried away with them a half-hearted interest in the class itself. Their individual preferences might have remained the same, but it is a question...