Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the University the sum of $628.28 was obtained from over 800 contributors for the monument that will be erected on the banks of the Marne. Next among the major universities was the University of Pennsylvania which gave $234.07 from 3104 students. Yale contributed $134 and Cornell $119.65. Princeton's offering was $52.54 from among 500 students. Princeton's moderate sum is explained by the fact that the annual club elections were held during the same period as the collection, and because the students had just given to their endowment fund following a campaign on the campus...
...library would be built on the site of the famous old one which was completely destroyed, Professor De Wulf replied: "No, they will not build there, but we will probably leave the ruins there. The university would not be free to build on the ruins. It is an historical monument, and the government would interfere with any change. The American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books, but we want to have a library...
When an older man of power passes away the whole country mourns him. But he has left his monument. Gavit was just beginning. His chance was still to come, and those who knew him believe he would have met it with the same sincerity and effective energy which marked his youth...
...sagacious, he was also a man of great practical ability. He seemed gifted with a marvelous power of gathering wealth for the institution over which he presided; and from a structural point of view he created it anew. The great buildings beside the Charles will be an enduring monument to his capacity of forming a great conception and carrying it out, and to how much he was able to accomplish in the few short years in what was to him a foreign land...
...bear the brunt of it, but to educational institutions everywhere. Not yet fifty, he literally gave his life in the cause for which during the last eleven years, he had made such a gallant and successful fight. The great buildings on the Cambridge bank of the Charles are his monument, the rank of Tech as the greatest scientific school in the country, his creation...