Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...buildings for the new Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building...
...what a monument of glorious worth When in a new edition he comes forth, Without errutas, may we think he'll be In leares and covers of eternity...
Lately a placard has been posted up in the Library inviting subscriptions for a monument to Dante at Ravenna...
...making all three collections co-operative in the advance of Romanesque, Gothic, Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture. The class of '81 in making this gift is keeping up with the old custom that each class ten years after graduation place some memorial stone or building on the campus as a monument of the generosity of the class...