Word: medallion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Memorial.AT a special meeting of the Association of Alumni of Harvard College, held on the 25th November, 1878, the undersigned were appointed an executive committee to carry out the wishes of the association then expressed, viz. "to place in Memorial Hall a likeness of General Bartlett, in bust or medallion, with a tablet commemorative of his services. In the event then more money be contributed than is necessary for this purpose, the surplus to be used for the benefit of General Bartlett's children; and, further, that special contributions for the latter purpose be received by the treasurer...
...life of Marcus Aurelius and a short account of his philosophy is prefixed to the Meditations. A portrait from a bust in the British Museum forms the frontispiece, and a medallion on the cover is taken from a coin of the time of Aurelius...