Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Living Church fervently seconded the minority report in an editorial titled "Not Unity but Surrender." But the hottest blast came in an article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...
...last-named donation is the gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92, New York financier, for the establishment of a new undergraduate library to be erected on the present site of the Dana-Palmer House inside the Yard. The Palmer House, long a landmark in Harvard architecture, will be moved across Quincy Street into the area formerly occupied by Hocking House. Funds for the relocation project came in the form of an anonymous gift...
Bausch and Lomb, one of the country's leading optical firms, announced yesterday that it has given its 17 foot, one ton telescope to the University Observatory in Climax, Colorado. The telescope, long a landmark in Rochester, where it has been fixed on top of the Bausch and Lomb Building in the center of the city, will be installed at the joint Harvard-Colorado High Altitude Observatory in Climax, before the end of the summer. Installation work will be under the direction of Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics...
...Seeking a landmark, a reckoning mountain...
...Harvard moves slowly," he went on, "it's an old man. What I really object to is the fuss Harvard's made over this. It is not a landmark, or a milestone, or anything of the kind. But it's nice to have you trailing along with...