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At boundary size, the mechanisms are these. The Golden Dome is an icon mechanism: the Main Building's dome, gilded in 1886 and crowned with a 19-foot statue, is the university's most recognizable landmark, reproduced until the image alone names the school. Touchdown Jesus is an image named from elsewhere: the mural's true title is the Word of Life, a 134-by-68-foot granite mosaic on Hesburgh Library's stadium face, and the fame name was coined from the stands, because the raised arms match a referee's touchdown signal and the mural is seen from inside the stadium. Notre Dame Stadium is the nationally watched ground, its fame renewed by broadcast every home Saturday. The Basilica and the Grotto are pilgrimage ground: the Grotto's candle ministry runs by post and now by web form — for 33 years until 1995 Clara Clements lit candles for people who could not come in person, Brother James Lakofka handled roughly 10,500 mailed requests a year from 1977, and the Alumni Association's prayer team continues the ministry, a perpetual candle standing for all requests. That is pilgrimage fame with a forwarding system, and it is Notre Dame's, at boundary size.
Tested on this ground, the home candidates do not carry world fame, and the test is the finding. Juday Creek's fame mechanism is scientific, not popular: the U.S. Geological Survey identifies it as one of the few streams in Indiana that can support a naturally reproducing brown trout population, Notre Dame's biologists call it one of only two or three streams in northern Indiana that support trout, and a 2,200-foot restored channel was built for it beside the Warren Golf Course in the late 1990s — a studied stream, cited in the literature, unknown to the general world. The Granger Station junction's fame is rail-local: a union depot shared by two roads (row 6 below), remembered by railfans and by a supermarket mural, not by the world. The Microsoft campus's fame is corporate and prospective (row 4): a famous owner's name on ground the public cannot enter and has not yet seen operate. No site inside the census line carries a world fame mechanism. Printed whole, that is the roll.
University of Notre Dame tour and campus record (Word of Life mural, 134 × 68 ft, 5,700+ granite pieces; Golden Dome gilded 1886); FaithND Grotto prayer-request record and Notre Dame Magazine, "Grotto: You write, he lights" (Clara Clements; Brother James Lakofka, ~10,500 requests a year); U.S. Geological Survey, Characteristics, transport, and yield of sediment in Juday Creek, 1993–94; Land and Water magazine, "Urban Trout Stream Gets a Second Chance"; Visit South Bend Mishawaka's published Notre Dame record, read for the boundary sites only.