Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mr. Raiche left no scholarly books as a monument to his name, he left the memory of a delightful personality. His qualities were those most valuable to the teacher of small classes. It was, therefore, natural that he should have been little known except to those with whom his work brought him in contact. They will remember him, as he would have wished to be remembered, for his mellow philosophy and his friendship...
...Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected him as the model for a proposed Ranger monument...
...undergraduate irregulars. Since where three sons of Harvard are gathered together three will be from two-and-a-half to four opinions about most subjects, the want of consensus about this proposed commemoration was unavoidable. A few of the choicest doctrinaires and come-outers said there should be no monument of any sort. They seemed to consider it as an encouragement of war. The majority could not breathe on these dizzy pacific altitudes. The only question was how the graduates who had played their part honorably in the war should be honored...
...this instance it seems to the writer, the voice of the masses should at least make itself felt in protest. This, in other words, is a call to arms. When, fifty years from now, the "Memorial Chapel" stands with the still un-burnt Memorial Hall as a monument to uselessness, it should be known, that the present college generation, at least, was in opposition. I suggest a student committee to organize a vigorous protest as soon as possible and to cooperate with such alumni as also wish to raise their voices in opposition. M. Fred Loewenstein...
...shed not far from the new monument M. le Ministre counted 1,400 skeletons, bits of uniform still clinging to their bleached bones. A rusty airplane hangar contained 9,800 more, piled in dusty, loose-covered boxes, jumbled together under tattered sheets. Reporters ferreting for themselves discovered that thousands of other bodies lie buried so shallowly that each Spring thaw brings many to the surface. The Minister of Pensions stayed in Verdun only an hour, returned thoughtfully to Paris. On the train he brightened somewhat...