Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep before the minds of Harvard men the sacrifices made by their fellow-students and graduates in the War, and they fear that a dormitory, gymnasium, or auditorium would obscure the ideal for which it was erected. Therefore they conclude that something in the nature of an ornamental monument, a belfry, or a new chapel would be the only suitable memorial...
...Here is a real opportunity for the scholastic world of this country to combine and offer this monument to their elder sister in distress. Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Amherst have come through splendidly. Let not Harvard fall down with her share". Thus Mr. Whitney Warren, architect of the new Memorial and speaker at the Union last night, characterized the importance of the University's Louvain Library fund drive which starts today...
...committee can't make up its mind, or doesn't deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest buildings ever raised by the hand of man. Possibly, however, undergraduate esthetic feeling toward it has been softened since the compulsory huddling of students at too early hours was abolished...
...cost of maintenance for only sporadic uses make the plan economically unsound. Some thinkers have devised a scheme of a building part hall and part gymnasium. A singular marriage. Some graduates hold that the memorial shouldn't be of any base "utilitarian" character, but purely a work of art, monument, sculptural or both...
Kane, A. C., 7 Monument Sq., Charlestown...