Word: monumentally
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Hall. But, in answer to this, let us consider the true purpose of the building. It was to perpetuate the memory of the sons of Harvard who perished in the war; but are they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned...