Word: monument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monday, the 31st, at the regular Memorial Day celebration, Professor William James and Booker T. Washington, who served in the 54th Massachusetts and was given an honorary A. M. at the last Commencement, are to deliver addresses at the unveiling of the Shaw Monument on Boston Common...
...monument to his memory, which will last as long as the city of Boston, and which is the product of his own genius, is the Metropolitan Park System of Boston. He was influential in arousing interest in this undertaking in the beginning, and later the plans were in great part entrusted...
...monument to Colonel Robert G. Shaw of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts, which has been for many years in preparation, is at last to be put up on Boston Common. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard with the class of '60, but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army just before the before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National guards. He soon exchanged to the second Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor Andrew gave him the command of the fifty-fourth...
...years after the war private subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...
...public unveiling of the monument is to take place next Decoration Day. Professor Wm. James and Booker T. Washington, who was given an honorary A. M. at the last Commencement, are to be the principal orators...