Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Washington alumni have taken the initiative in an effort to erect a monument to the memory of Ex-President McLean, and have invited the co-operation of the other associations...
...when they began to build palaces, they intended them to be a lasting and glorious monument of their reign. The Assyrians were impressed with a great historic sense and they wanted their monuments to last on forever, that future generations might know their power...
...Washington Alumni of Princeton have taken the initiative in an effort to raise enough money to erect a monument to the memory of ex President Maclean, aud have asked the other alumni associations to co-operate with them...
...what did the saintly grace of the great Apostle to the Indians, John Eliot, give to our Massachusetts history, for without him we should have lost that singular example of a man who may be said to have created a language, certainly in its literary form, of which the monument of his patience and erudition, and the proof of how a language may die, stands to-day in the score copies or more which have come down to us of the Indian Bible. What would the first gathering of the church here in Cambridge have been without the saintly Thomas...
...exploring party had left the monument. Led by their experienced guide they turned to the left, went down a crowded street or two and came to the Navy Yard. A sentry or two stared at them as they passed through the gate and entered the government grounds. It is a pretty place - the yard - with green terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment...