Word: monumentalize
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...have not entered into their neighbors' dispute. Secretary Kellogg's scheme of settlement would give Bolivia a much-desired corridor to the sea and a port, the city of Arica. Then too, on the Morro promontory of Arica, Secretary Kellogg would like to see erected a monument to commemorate the healing of the Chile-Peru hate. Thus, everyone would be happy...
Since the death last summer of the great educator, the CRIMSON has been working on a monument to the man, who during his life long connection with the University did more than any other single individual to mold the destinies of Harvard. The work has been painstaking and complete and the CRIMSON is now ready to publish what it considers to be in a small way a memorial to the man it recognizes in this fashion. Some of the foremost educators of the country including among their number close personal friends of Charles William Eliot have contributed essays and tributes...
...Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their 18-inch bearskin hats for the dedication of the Guards Memorial. Field Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the King-Emperor, unveiled the Guards Monument, taking in his hand as he did so the hand of General Higginson. Londoners cheered the Royal Duke and the Centenarian General. They cheered louder Edward of Wales as he wheeled smartly past as Colonel of the Welsh Guards at the head of his regiment. The Prince looked painfully thin...
Libraries may be million dollar libraries but unless they are habitable they fail in their purpose. Widener is a superb monument, and it is unfortunate that details which might be corrected should render it imperfect. The appearance of the building has been criticized but that does not impair its undoubted efficiency: the present ethereal conditions, however, do. So in addition to sweetness and light, let there...
Late in life, Thomas Jefferson decided to establish a university, and did so. The University of Virginia is a monument to this ambition. He spent his fortune lavishly on erection of buildings, selection of a capable faculty, and in attempting to make his university a true seat of newworld culture. But his solution of the food problem, of so much interest to the modern collegian, remains a secret. There is, on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener, a draft of a letter written by the Great Democrat to a friend concerning menus at the University...