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...train chuffed southeastward, from the Caribbean shore toward the Pacific. In it, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, sat a quiet erect gentleman of 73. No one had paid much attention to him when he left his ship at Cristobal, but along the railway, at various stops, men who had worked 20 years or more in the Canal Zone, looked at him intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens...
...work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry familiar to everyone, was a sure formula for attracting attention. Mr. Kalish attracted it, deserved it. His work was able, though...
When Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepted the call to the Park Avenue Baptist Church, he made three conditions: that the Church should erect a new building near Columbia University, should open its membership to all Christians regardless of dogma and should not insist upon the principle of Baptism by immersion. The Church agreed. It would go a long way to get Dr. Fosdick, the most celebrated pulpit-orator of his generation...
...good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a statue on dat spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan, 1927. Mr. Bryan, cotton planter and banker, had been lulled to sleep in his babyhood by Negro spirituals, and had played with little slave boys on his father...
...question is sometimes asked, why do men instinctively pay tribute, dedicate memorials, seek in a hundred different ways to perpetuate the memory of those who have lived inspiring lives or died inspiring deaths. What purpose does it serve, for instance, aside from common courtesy and gratitude, to erect the Lincoln Memorial Building or the fountains, obelisks and group figures in every town to the fallen soldiers in the world war. Certainly these material tributes are too often architectural monstrosities...