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...candidate for a degree has not even time to become reminiscent, for He has just discovered that the Child Memorial is not a monument to flapjacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNUAL RENAISSANCE | 3/5/1925 | See Source »

...fame to his able statues of wild horses, won the gold medal in the St. Louis Exhibition of 1903, completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always he has been active in public affairs: he helped the farmers of the Northwest when they cried for better prices, he investigated, at the request of President Wilson, inefficiencies in aircraft building during the War. Said he: "The man of position or wealth who remains passive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Glum Borglum | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

Opium. The International Opium Conference adjourned its deliberations, began to study the draft of the Anti-Narcotics Convention, the monument which the Conference erected to its imperishable memory. The chief British delegate, Lord Cecil, returned to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The Week's Doings | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...Edward J. Kempf, psychiatrist, thought of "Buffalo Bill's monument in Wyoming by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney." Replied Houdini: "I get the picture of a man killing cattle-no, buffalos. I see him bringing meat to men building a railroad. He has long hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Occult Acts | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...first place, it was built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HAIL, DIVINEST MELANCHOLY!" | 2/7/1925 | See Source »

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