Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Site chosen for this edifice is the edge of the cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in the Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers...
...utilitarian memorial would be undignified. The temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
Broadcasts scheduled for next month are: "The Labor Movement in the United States, 1865-1900", Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, April 6; "The Noblest Monument of English Prose", John L. Lowes, Higginson Professor of English Literature, April 13; "The Great Masters of Baroque and Rococo Music", Dr. Hugo Leichtentirtt '94, April 14; "Astronomical Tests of the Theory of Relativity", Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, April 20; "The Romantic and Impressionistic Aspects of Landscape Painting in Music", Dr. Leichtentirtt, April 21; "Government Regulation of Industry", Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, April...
...Majesty the German Emperor, Wilhelm 11, bestowed upon the President and Fellows of Harvard College a matchless collection of casts of German sculpture. It was this Imperial gift that assured the Germanic Association, founded only the previous year, the success of its aspiration to create in America a monument to German culture. A few years later Adolphus Busch donated the money to build, and Professor Bestelmeyer of Munich designed, the present Germanic Museum...
...Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about done. We have...