Word: monumentalized
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...specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host...
...should give this plan hearty support. The renovated cities of France would stand as a permanent monument to our gratitude and friendship...
Such a sum of money--$63,500--could be utilized for a work designated by the class. This money would benefit the college at some future date, would be a monument to the class for all time, and would bring the Second Liberty Loan of 1917 nearer--truly only a little, but nevertheless nearer--a successful completion NOW. L. R. BRADLEY...
...what has come of these dead deeds? Not individual glory, nor lasting power to nations, nor a reversal of the immutable law of existence. Sometimes nothing more than a ruined inscription on a ruined monument, or the new thought of a philosopher, or the small poem of a great poet...
...this point of view, it appears from the communication of John Jay Chapman printed elsewhere, is wholly false and deceptive. Instead of being Harvard's glory, the monument is a "memorial to hr shame" and likewise "an insult to God," all because "it makes no distinction between the cause of the Allies and the cause of Germany." Harvard's mistake, it seems, is in honoring the valor and self-sacrifice of her sons as Harvard men only and without drawing the line between valor that was pro-Ally and valor and devotion merely pro-German...