Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Attica are under the supervision of Mr. Buck of Yale. It will be remembered that last year a theatre, with its orchestra and stage, was excavated at Sicyon. The work at present is going on near the ruins of a Byzantine church. In the apseof the church a choragic monument was found, upon whose architraive were the names of those patrons of the chorus who erected it in commemoration of a triumph in a literary competition. Outside the church a marble seat or throne was unearthed, while near it there were traces of votin slabs and statues to the number...
...opposition to the Heine monument at Dusseldorf has been defeated and the memorial will be erected in the Hofgarten. The sculptor, Ernst Herter, is already at work on the design...
...Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that the first shots were fired which meant that the colonies of America were to be free and independent? Are we not within sight of the monument erected over the spot where brave men fought and fell at Bunker Hill? If this is Harvard conservatism, fit upon it! Where, we ask, is Harvard patriotism? For a lack of the sentiment of patriotism in the authorities of a college situated in New Mexico there might be some excuse...
...meeting of the "Sons of the Revolution," held at Delmonico's, New York, on Friday, a committee was appointed to take steps to erect a monument to the memory of Nathan Hale, Yale...
...destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...