Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library of 500 volumes and half of his little fortune of $4,000 was bequeathed to the struggling college or rather school just coming into existence. The state wisely gave his name to the new seat of learning ; but from then until 1828 he remained unnoticed without even a monument of any account over his lowly grave. In that year a marble shaft was raised by subscription, limited to one dollar each, donated by Harvard graduates then living. The event was made much of and the prominent feature of the unveiling was a speech by Edward Everett...
...German National Monument, at Niederwald, for which the German students subscribed the statue of "Peace," cost...
...existence which received his personal aid and encouragement, and is being developed so as to realize to the country all the practical benefits of Washington's plan, it seems eminently appropriate that the people everywhere should contribute, on the anniversary of his birth, to make the university a monument worthy of his name...
...solid stone, the walls of which are paneled to receive appropriate inscriptions, and is lighted from the roof. The sarcophagus is placed so as to be visible from the interior of the chapel. The wall back of the pulpit was removed and a graceful arch formed, through which the monument is seen to great advantage. General Lee is represented as lying on his military cot, with a spread thrown over him. His right arm rests upon his breast, and the left hand lies upon the hilt of his sword. The artist, Valantini, and the material used in its construction...
...overlooking our beautiful valley, with its musical Indian name, Roanoke, lie the remains of the distinguished Revolutionary general, Andrew Lewis, the famous Indian fighter of his time and the hero of the battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio, whose statue is one of the proud group around Washington Monument in Richmond. On the same hill lie the remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from the college "not in the war paint...