Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known...
...great services to the nation. Yale has already raised fifteen hundred dollars. Harvard's quota must surpass this figure. In contributing something, however small, each one of us can have the satisfaction of knowing that he is helping toward a permanent park at Sagamore Hill, the erection of a monument at Washington, and the endowment of "a great educational foundation to keep alive through study and teaching, the great ideals for which President Roosevelt stood...
...University men who died in the war in the rooms which they last occupied while at College is the fourth of the series of plans for a University War Memorial. The three previous suggestions, which have been published in the CRIMSON, for a new gymnasium, for a monument in the proposed park on the south bank of the Charles River, and for a large auditorium are projects which would require a great deal of time and money to put into execution, while the tablets in the College dormitories would cost much less, and would be more in the nature...
Many tentative ideas and suggestions were received from varying sources by the committees in charge as to the definite form that the memorial should take. The first and most natural suggestion was the erection of a new hall or chapel or some dignified monument that should forever commemorate the heroism of the university's sons. In view of the fact, however, that the money necessary and incident to the erection of such a monument would have to be funds diverted from courses where they are needed for educational purposes, this plan was for the moment laid aside, and consideration given...
...time there will be created a memorial in honor of all the Harvard men who have laid down their lives in the war; but the Junior Class intended to do more than give to this larger monument, by donating a smaller memorial for the members of their class who have been killed. A gateway has been determined upon by the Class of 1920 in the belief that it will be a small personal tribute that will serve as a tangible monument until the ultimate large memorial is erected. The Class of 1920 is to be commended on their splendid enterprise...