Word: monumentals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Library has lately received from the Imperial German Embassy in Washington, as a gift from the German Emperor, a superb volume entitled "The Wartburg; a Monument of German History and Art." The volume is elaborately illustrated, containing 706 cuts in the text, and 54 plates...
...cannot fail to arouse in anyone who reads it the feeling that his highest privilege as a member of the University is to give something to that University. And yet there are those who, ignorant or forgetful of this dedicatory address, even in the very building that is a monument to generosity and devotion are endeavoring to get something for nothing from the University and its benefactors in a mean way. The Union was intended for the use of all Harvard men, but all who use it are expected to contribute their share towards its maintenance...
...very beautiful reproduction of the bronze statue of Theodoric from the monument of the Emperor Maximilian at Innsbruck has been donated by the "Deutsche Gesellschaft" of Boston. This statue was placed in the museum as a companion piece to that of King Arthur from the same group...
...What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within a few months of his arrival--he little thought of what a fine monument he was building for himself. And best of all it is a living, growing monument, which will be greater 300 years from today than it is now. John Harvard is commemorated also in the lives of every man who has been educated in this institution which he founded...
...this living monument today? By the most recent computations it is about 13,000 in number, all men who have here come under the inspiration of Harvard University, and received its degrees. The number recognized by the Harvard Athletic Association and the Alumni Association is greater and includes all men who have ever been at Harvard. Of these there are 18,000, banded together as a great, living Harvard force in the Alumni Association...