Word: babel
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned by the daily presence of her students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some...