Word: monument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deference to the expressed wish of F. F. Thompson '56, of New York city, one of the college's greatest benefactors, there will be no cane or monument rush at Williams this year. The new senior society, the Gargoyle, took the initiative in doing away with the time-honored monument rush, when on Friday it voted to use its influence against the affair. Saturday the senior class held a meeting and voted to prevent the rush if possible. The junior class was also favorable to the scheme, and the lower classes will hardly venture to carry on the rush against...
During the summer the monument which is to mark Soldiers Field was erected. It is of marble and stands under an elm tree in front of the Locker Building. The following inscription is engraved upon the front...
62tTHE programme of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is a splenid monument to the abilities of that enterprising person and his power of attracting the best performers to exhibit before the best audiences. The first five events illustrate exciting scenes on the great American prairie before the railroads had been projected west. In the fifth event a prairie emigrant train crossing the plains is attacked by a wild band of Indians who are gallantly repulsed by Buffalo Bill and a few scouts. The whole scene is thrillingly realistic in the smoke and broil of battle which it represents. Next...
...president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...
EDWARD CUMMINGS.GEOLOGY 4. - Sections will meet at Soldiers' Monument on Common at 9 a. m. or 2 p. m. Note books will be needed...