Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commemorate the Allied and German soldiers on separate plaques is a miserable compromise. If the object of the memorial is to glorify the tarnished catch-words of 1918, the Germans should not be named at all. If it is a monument to patriotic Harvard men, any discrimination between them is odious. H. C. Hatfield...
...known to his Wall St. associates, is gone now, and it will be his accomplishments by which America will remember, him. The First National Bank, as near a one-man enterprise as it is possible for a $400,000,000 corporation to be, will stand as a monument to his fame as long as there is a shred of capitalism and conservatism in the land. It was Mr. Baker's job to build up this prince of commercial banks; it is the task of his less imaginative and more conservative successors to maintain it. Outside of the First National...
...monument (Yale's new library) will indeed remain through the centuries as a memorial to the character of its builders. For ages it will unmercifully reveal their soul. It will tell the story of American wealth and academic culture of the earlier twentieth century. Skyscrapers narrate only a part of the story; in a generation they must give way to others, and in their mortality lies their smallness. The Yale library will not give away, and historians, philosophers, and sight-seers in five hundred years will reconstruct the America of our day form its venerable stones...
...finer monument could be devised to the futility and the translent character of war hysteria than a Memorial to all who fought in the Great War regardless of what flag they followed. For now after twelve years of peace the issues are being analyzed and weighed, and the struggle is losing its partisan character...
Without regard for the other qualifications of the Memorial Chapel, already discussed in the past, and the comparatively small number of Harvard men who fought on the German side, their inclusion strengthens the ideal for which the Chapel will stand. The proposed Memorial will be at once a monument to the courage of the individual in sacrificing his life for an ideal of right, and an indication that blind hostility must pass and eventually be replaced by the ideal of international peace...