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Word: monumental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the present system, the man who speculates with a ticket made out for his personal use, is simply erecting a monument to his petty dishonesty, for he is almost certain to be caught, and once caught his name is set down on the records of the Athletic Association to remain there indefinitely, debarring him from future consideration by the University athletic authorities, and remaining as a perpetual source of shame and regret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEWARE THE BLACKLIST! | 9/29/1914 | See Source »

Professor Kuno Francke, Litt.D. '12, has been invited to deliver the Convocation Address at the University of Chicago on June 9. On June 13, he will speak at the dedication of the Goethe monument which will be unveiled that day in Lincoln Park, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Francke to Speak at Chicago | 5/14/1914 | See Source »

...logic of the Graduate Student's assertion that the Freshman Dormitories will be a monument to the snobbishness which still exists in healthy vigor is obscure. Perhaps he means that they will be a gravestone to the vice; and we think they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPRESSIONS VS. CONFESSIONS | 1/6/1914 | See Source »

Professor Kukenthal, exchange professor at Breslau University, Germany, has presented the Germanic Museum with a reproduction of a very fine monument of one of the Bishops of Breslau by Peter Vischer, the famous German sculptor. This is one of the early works of Vischer, having been completed towards the end of the fifteenth century. The monument will arrive some time during the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift to Germanic Museum | 4/8/1913 | See Source »

...purpose of this foundation is to establish, at the oldest University of America, a monument to the West and to its importance both past, present and future in shaping the character and the destinies of this country. If the Foundation fulfils the conception of the founder and of the Commission, it will aid in collecting material which will in the future make possible adequate study of the fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF THE WEST | 6/11/1912 | See Source »

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