Word: monument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Society of Authors held a meeting in London, Eng., last Tuesday to consider the question of erecting a monument to the memory of James Russell Lowell. Mr. Leslie Stevens, the originator of the plan, occupied the chair. The meeting was in the nature of a protest against the rudely expressed objections to placing more tributes to foreigners in Westminster Abbey. Among those present were Sir Frederick Pellock and Messrs. Stevens, Linton, Besant, Gosse, Sidney, Lee, Maccoll and Martineau...
Leslie Stephen, M. A., the editor and author has written a letter to the London Times in which he proposes that a fund be raised for the purpose of erecting a monument to James Russell Lowell in Westminister Abbey...
Tufts College will erect a $10,000 monument in memory of the late Col. Gardiner Tufts...
...establishment of this institution has long been a dream of Mr. Drexel's and he has been at work on it for years. It is an everlasting monument to a most generous, broad minded, and pailanthropie man. Mr. Drexel is now a man of about sixty and is at the head of a most successful banking business in Philadelphia. He is one of the largest givers for charity in that city. He has been very much aided in the growth of the institute by Mr. George W. Childs, who with Mr. Drexel and his son compose the board of trustees...
...other day, going to see John Harvard's grave in the old cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively...