Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard s at this moment raising a monument to those of her sons who have fallen in the European war-whether they fell in the German ranks or with the Allies. No distinction is made between those romantic spirits who gave their lives for the world's sake in opposing the Huns, and the German boy who was called to his colors. No distinction is made between the cause of the allies and the cause of Germany. The monument celebrates both causes indifferently. It approves the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania by the same...
...This monument is an insult to god. It will be an enduring memorial to the shams of Harvard and to nothing else. It was voted by the corporation on November 27 after mature deliberation, in the face of apposition from outside the board and in spite of requests for delay...
...action of the corporation was taken by a solemn, specific, legally binding resolution which will oblige the monument t be built unless the corporation by some act s solemn, as specific, and as legally-binding shall rescind the resolution and return the money already raised to the subscribers. --JOHN JAY CHAPMAN...
Harvard is raising a monument to students of the university who have fallen in the European war, honoring them all alike as worthy sons, regardless of the side on which they fought; and to most graduates of the college this has seemed the fine and noble thing about the memorial. It was alma mater's loving and unquestioning tribute to the brave youth she had nurtured...
...reality discontinuous, as other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell's researches had the merit of being a positive and constructive theory concerning them, which he was willing to maintain against the world's denial. At all events, the observatory at Flagstaff remains, to be not only a monument to his spirit and his zeal, but to be also the lasting and the best means of demonstrating whether he was right or wrong. And in the last analysis, Mr. Lowell himself would have desired nothing more than that the clear Arizona air and the superb instruments which he provided...