Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate. The four short stories are all very short, with the exception of "The Shadow of Death," by Mr. Emerson Low. This is a story that catches and holds the attention, a story of some power, but also of obvious crudities. The weakest of the other stories is "The Mausoleum of Signore Palzi"; it is uneven, hurried, and immature. The best is "Traumerei," by Mr. Prosser, a bit of real life presented with a vividness that would be stronger if the author curbed a little more a tendency towards floridity...
...years ago the huge concrete Bowl at New Haven, destined to be the mausoleum of Yale's brightest hopes, was appropriately christened with a Harvard victory. On Saturday, Harvard a second time faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined...
...time the absurdity of the situation. Mr. Moise has called this satire "In Memoriam." The title explains itself as we read how la Comtesse du Porc-Mouton presented one day to M. le President du College des Antiquites etudes Etudes Classiques a memorial library "to be fashioned after the Mausoleum at Helikarnassus or the Taj Mahat at Agra." Mr. Moise graphically explains the history of certain types of architecture...
...first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series of lectures on a contemporary problem, he is surely wiser to choose the latter. But wiser still is the man who, realizing that his own judgment as to the needs of the next century are not infallible, gives his gifts subject only...