Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present-day attitude towards Mem Hall Shows. If our object is in reality to aid the cause of education against war, let us take practical steps to that end through a Professor's Chair, or international scholarships, or some such means, rather than by raising merely another monument to the hypocrisy and futility of the Human face. Chester T. Lane...
Apropos of the student poll about a suitable war memorial, I oppose the suggestion of having a new chapel, (since worship is irretrievably dissociated from Harvard) and also the suggestion of a monument, because such a memorial is at best a rather sterile and lifeless affair...
...early but enduring monument...
...grumbling among themselves, some U. S. artists paced their studios. They were not merely annoyed; they felt grieved and hurt. On the upper end of Manhattan Island a vast edifice was arising, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which had been conceived and financed not solely as a monument to religion, but as a monument to U. S. religion, supported by all creeds and classes, a monument to and by U. S. art, an expression of the nation's creative genius in the 20th Century...
...That arrogant statement [Architect Cram's] should not debar any man from discussing what is purely a matter of principle-namely, whether a so-called national monument . . . should not be made an expression of the country and the times by the exclusive use of the talent and genius of America. . . . There is nothing personal in what I have to say. Dr. Cram says that he offered the work to one or two Americans before employing Angell. There are a great many more to whom he could have offered it, and men of the greatest competence. The truth...