Still, he said, "historic symbols seem to attract the most students."

In this sense, the industrial and historic "symbols" of the harbour were to be quite consciously retained.

The cross was considered a representative historic symbol for the municipality.

The gates of the forts are historic symbols today.

Each graduating senior and graduate student receives a hood, which is a colorful, historic symbol of scholastic excellence.

And yet the demonstrations are more than a fight over historic symbols.

Let them get their own historic symbol.

Hertzberg, like everyone else really, debates him in the abstract, as an idea, as a historic symbol.

They see it not only as a historic symbol of democracy but also as a practical institution that performs its job well.