Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...MARKOE.BICYCLE CLUB.- There will be a run to Lexington next Friday afternoon, and return by moonlight. The start will be made from University at 4 p. m. Supper at Monument House. Members of this club will please sign at Bartlett's before Friday noon. Dinner at expense of the club...
Senator Stanford recently said, in reference to Stanford University, which he has founded and endowed: "It will be built with a sole regard to the poor; no rich man's son or daughter will want to come there. My university will absord my wealth and be a monument to the memory of my son. The poor alone will be welcome."-Tuftonian...
...monument to Gen. McClellan will probably be erected at Princeton...
...anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
...strong and earnest appeal for the requisite amount of money to build a monument in New York to the memory of General Grant embodies the most important feature of the first article in the January number of the "Art Review". To the artist, the short account of the famous "Gilder" of Rembrandt cannot fail to be both attractive and interesting. "An Outline Sketch" is the title of a pleasant picture of the distinguished American painter, Paul Reubens Smith. The closing pages of the magazine are entirely devoted to "Art Notes," which form a budget of interesting facts to artists. Apart...