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GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
While Memorial Hall stands as a monument to both the Union's Civil War dead and to the moribund ideas of John Ruskin, it also rests on a plot of very desirable University property. Monuments need not be functional, but when one sprawls grotesquely over ground the size of two football fields, there is some question whether good sense has not been sacrificed to sentiment...
...buildings--such as Houses, departmental offices, and a health center--and even if land in Cambridge could be had by preemption, there would be no reason to build a student activities center. Presuming the University had money to give away, it should give none to build a monument to extra-curricular bureaucracy and centralization...
Mary Baker Eddy was in sight, as we gingerly rounded Halcyon Lake. Squatting close by the shore, her monument was everlastingly protected by tree and shrubs. On the right side, a lady-sized tablet bore a quotation of the Discoverer of Christian Science herself; on the left, a similar tablet, perhaps slightly larger, was inscribed with words of Christ. We immediately rejected any speculation as to who was buried under the latter tablet, on the ground that it would be sacrilegious...
...road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta give it some air"); only Estes could stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias and marigolds, and beneath a dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that he was going to work for "full employment and equal opportunities"; only he could deliver a major farm speech in an industrial center (Janesville)-with only 150 (cityfolk) present. Somewhat symbolic, moreover...