Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Could there be a worthier memorial monument of any man who cared for the advance of truth than a library such as that which the university should have...
...March. Between $130,000 and $150,000 will be spent on the building itself. Mr. Hunt has designed among other things the Lenox Library, the Presbyterian Hospital, the Tribune Building, the residence of William K. Vanderbilt, lgden Mills, and Henry G. Marquand in New York; the Yorktown Monument; and the pedesdal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Harvard University awarded Mr. Hunt an LL.D. at last commencement...
...slow to start. Hence Spain was not one of the poetically fecund nations of the Middle Ages. The earliest literature we have in the vulgar Spanish tongue belongs to the end of the 12th century, - a century later than the earliest French literature of moment. In the very earliest monument of Spanish, poetry that has come down to us, the Poem of the Cid, we see plainly the influence of French models, as least upon form. And this impression is strengthened by the earliest lyric poetry. Accordingly, it is certain that the influence of France and Provence determined the earliest...
...Allan Marquand has presented the Princeton College library with thirty drawings in India ink and sepia of subjects from Shakespeare, by F. O. C. Darley. These drawings were prepared in behalf of the Darley-Shakespeare Society, and the proceeds of the sale are to be used in erecting a monument to Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon...
...resolved that a monument to the memory of James Russell Lowell should be erected, and a committee was appointed to carry the intentions of the society into effect...