Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tuberculosis germs, made a trip to Africa to study sleeping sickness. He was then 64 years old. Parts of his diary have just been published, with notes. Dr. Koch did not find a remedy, but the hardships of his trips and his modesty in recording them are a monument to his devotion to the medical profession...
...each building and monument in the Yard and outside of it is the spirit of some man who has made his mark in this world, and so my talk really centers about these, and might be called a defense of bad architecture. Many of the college buildings can be badly criticized from an architectural point of view, but their associations make us overlook this. President Eliot as at last admonition to the students advised them to look forward not backward, outward not inward, but it is not also important to seek inspiration from the past in the buildings of this...
...yond old playground, fit spot whereon to commemorate the manliness which there was nurtured, shall soon rise, a noble monument which for generations will give convincing answer to such shallow doubts: for over its gates will be written: "In memory of the sons of Harvard who died for their country." The future of the University will not be unworthy of its past...
...Therefore the Memorial must not be of a purely utilitarian nature but must have a high spiritual significance. This limits the wide field of possibilities to a Monument; a New Memorial Church and possibly the use of Holden Chapel. Plans show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which...
...American engineers, and is awarded triennially by the presidents of the representative British societies. Dr. W. C. Unwin, leading hydraulic engineer of England, was the only previous winner. The Electrical World, in commenting, says of Elihu Thomson: "The 700 patents issued to him by the U. S. are a monument to his inventive work, which has extended to almost every field of electrical application...