Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock that evening people said that there was an eight-foot tall bust of Abraham Lincoln's head in the middle of the Quad...
...Wednesday or Thursday--I can't remember which, it seems all a blur to me now--and it was 55 degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...
...Hasan offers a contrite smile. "Maybe I should make it clearer to them how patently I am devoted to those centers of excellence." And by the way, he notes, "it was a Lincoln Town...
...those who search for precedent, Harvard has been very clear and consistent in its evaluation of this troubled period in our national past. It was Harvard President Edward Everett who, along with President Lincoln, eulogized the fallen Union soldiers at Gettysburg. Memorial Hall was built not simply to commemorate the Northern dead but to honor all those who fought for the cause of the Union. Indeed, in his welcome to the returning Harvard men who fought for the Union, Professor James Russell Lowell declared...
...evil, in order to have meaning in any community. If Harvard has such an understanding, and indeed it does, then it is that deeper meaning, and not some misplaced notion of "equal time," that should be made manifest in the monuments it builds. If it does not, then Lincoln's spirit is dead and our atonement moot. For atonement is only achieved if it is engaged in consciously. A fast is not a fast if you simply forget to eat. The Civil War carries with it no national redemption unless we acknowledge its inherent moral force...