The answer is ACCOST The corresponding square is house puzzle by Chris Morse Weird Science By Chris Morse At the top, there are 6 quotations (or translations of quotations from 6 famous scientists). They are: Charles Darwin Antoine Lavoisier Michael Faraday Archimedes Louis Pasteur Nicolaus Copernicus Below this are six sets of two descriptions, each describing another famous scientist or inventor. Charles Boyle - Joseph Priestly (over Lavoisier) Elie De Beaumont - Henry Bessemer (over Pasteur) William Froude - Gustav De Laval (over Archimedes) William Gilbert - Alessandro Volta (over Faraday) Sadi Carnot - George Stephenson (over Copernicus) Thomas Young - Augustine Fresnel (over Darwin) If you look around Killian Courtyard, up on the attics of the pavilion, each of the quotations is from a person who has a LARGE name up above. Each of the pairs above also occur in the courtyard, above a different one of the 6 large names. If you go in the order of the quotations, you will notice that each of the pairs of names "sandwiches" a third scientist between them. Reading the surnames in order of the scientific quotations gives: Arago Cavendish Coulomb Otto Suess Telford Therefore, the answer is ACCOST.