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Whether this confusion is on the part of those protesting the monument or those proposing it, I do not know; if the concept of the memorial was a romanticized eulogy to those who died attempting to artificially resuscitate the antiquated and cruel feudal system of the Old South, objectors have excellent grounds for opposition. However, a simple recognition that some of Harvard's sons died wearing grey does not seem to me (and admittedly I am a white Southerner with Confederate ancestors) particularly offensive...
...press release was part of HBLSA's continued assault on a proposal, which went before the Board of Overseers this weekend, for a Memorial Church monument to Harvard alumni who died fighting in the Civil War. The memorial would include both Union and Confederate war dead...
...ever there was a monument to the Western Canon, Paine Hall is it. High above the audience, in proud brass letters, the names of the Great Composers--Beethoven, Schubert, Bach--remind us that we are in a temple of culture, to be enlightened by the best music from the best minds in history. The literal presence of these great names only emphasized the question posed by last Sunday's concert: is that tradition still alive, and does John Harbison belong...
...White, a renowned turn-of-the-century architecture firm whose works include the Harvard Club in New York City and the Boston Public Library. The planned destruction of the hall recalls the wanton destruction of the firm's greatest work, Pennsylvania Station in New York City in 1964. This monument fell victim to the disastrous urban "renewal" programs of the '50's and the '60's. The loss of Pennsylvania Station is now universally regretted. Yet the administration of our great university seems bent on committing a similar travesty...
However, the actual march was even more tremendous than I imagined it would be. From my position near the steps of the U.S. Capitol, I looked down the Mall and saw a sea of black faces that stretched all the way to the Washington monument. And as I cheered, clapped my hands and raised my fist in the Black Power salute with hundreds of thousands of other black men, I felt an incomparable felling of brotherhood and solidarity...