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INSCRIPTIONS W R I T T E N BY CHARLES WILLIAM

ELIOT

LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

INSCRIPTIONS W R I T T E N BY CHARLES WILLIAM

ELIOT

CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY MDCCCCXXXIV

PRESS

COPYRIGHT,

1934

B Y T H E P R E S I D E N T AND F E L L O W S OF HARVARD COLLEGE

PRINTED B Y T H E HARVARD U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S CAMBRIDGE, M A S S . , U . S . A .

C-WEWMTTEN FOR HIS NINETIETH BIRTHDAY, MARCH 20TH, I 9 2 4

Not jor himself; not for that house of learning Which he refashioned, guarded, builded higher: Wide as the world his eager heart is yearning; To all mankind he brings the sacred fire. Brave, ardent, young, the glorious torch he lighted; Strong, ardent, and mature, he held itfast; True, ardent, old — tili every wrong be righted He holds it high, a leader to the last. His are the mind and heart that rest in doing; His are the sword and shield that know not rust; Through fourscore years and ten, the Foe pursuing — Champion qfjreedom, passionately just. L. B. R. BRIGGS

FOREWORD

I

N 1877 Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, was asked to provide an inscription for the monument which was being set up on Boston Common in honor of the men of Boston who had lost their lives in the Civil War. The brevity, cogency, and lyric quality of what he wrote in response to that invitation won wide acclaim and from that time until his death in 1926 he was constantly asked to provide inscriptions — either original or in apt quotation — for all sorts of monuments, memorial tablets, public buildings, churches, and schools. Undoubtedly his success in this difficult form of composition was connected with his equal success in describing the careers and attainments of recipients of honorary degrees from the University. These phrases were compact, discerning, and often surprisingly dramatic. "An inscription for a monument," he once wrote, "ought to be addressed, not to its own generation, but to the people who are to look at it thirty, fifty, or two hundred years hence." Therefore he gave careful thought and study to these inscriptions and often rewrote them ten or twenty times before they satisfied him. It was a work which he thoroughly enjoyed and for which he was only once known to have accepted compensation. It meant not only the happy exercise of his gift for concise and descriptive phrasing, but also appeal.ed to his experience as a mathematician. It was his habit to request as his fi'rst need " a drawing to Scale of the tablet . . . with a sketch of the position and arrangement of the tablet which will give me the elevation above the eye of the reader." With this Information in mind, he could determine the correct size of the lettering, and so be guided as to

the number of words the space would allow. Again he wrote, " I t is quite impossible for anyone to write an inscription unless he is furnished with the drawing of the exact space into which it is to go." The Water-gate at the World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago illustrated this problem to a marked degree, for the panelled spaces, to contain inscriptions, formed an integral part of the architects' design and were of varying size and shape. The words which so fittingly commemorated the heroism of pioneer days were equally well adapted to these circumscribed spaces. The legibility of inscriptions interested Mr. Eliot greatly, for if an inscription was to be read, should it not be read with ease ? Many a controversy did he have with architects and sculptors on this fjoint. "Most of the lettering that now issues from the Offices of American architects," he wrote, "can be read only with difficulty. This is natural enough, because an architect usually regards an inscription as only an inferior form of decoration for a flat surface. Legibility becomes therefore a matter of secondary importance." He protested against the use of "flourishes or curvilinear decorations" in the lettering. Often he had to combat the draftsmen's desire to straddle the M's, or what was worse, to use a capital V instead of the English U — even when both letters were required in the same inscription. "The lettering ought to be piain, and the size of the letters should be whatever will make them easily legible from the ordinary or most probable Standpoint of the reader." An amusing example in this connection is afForded in the following extract from one of his letters. "The way in which the sculptor and architects propose to use the inscription [as a frieze around the base of a flagstafF 20 feet in diameter] is in my judgment so very unsuitable that I beg you to return to me the inscription I ofFered you, and to procure the inscription needed from some other person. I have had large experience in writing inscriptions and prescribing the way in which they should be put up or placed, and also in accommodating inscriptions I have

written to the peculiar conditions of the buildings or monuments on which they were to be placed; but it has never before been suggested that my inscription should be placed so that it could be read only by taking a walk round a considerable circle." Finally, he Heid that inscriptions should be adequately descriptive. In regard to a monument for which an inscription was requested, he wrote,"We are hoping to erect a monument that will stand for centuries. Should not future generations find some clear indication of the reasons for setting up the monument?" Often the recording of an event or the summary of a character required intensive study of the subj ect. We know that he worked, ofF and on, for five years on the Alexander Graham Bell tablet. "Mr. Eliot," wrote the chairman of the committee in charge, "left no stone unturned to familiarize himself with the Situation, reading all the books he could upon the subj ect, as well as much of the testimony given in the trial of the Bell Telephone cases. His patience, consideration, and earnest desire to adopt any suggestions where possible was indeed rare." In contrast to the foregoing, the following quite difFerent incident may be cited. In 1911, at the dose of a long day's work at Northeast Harbor, Maine, Mr. Eliot went out on his boat in Company with two or three friends. Presently he produced a scrap of paper and an infinitesimal pencil and began to write. When he had finished, he read aloud the original draft of the two inscriptions for the Post Office at Washington. Possibly he had meditated these inscriptions for some time, but it appeared to those present like an Inspiration of the moment. In time they came, unsigned, to the notice of President Wilson who made a few alterations and consigned the inscriptions to the stonecutters. Only later did he learn the name of the author. The inscriptions in this book are arranged in an historically chronological sequence, and the date of writing, when known, is recorded. Naturally the printing cannot show the spacing or the varying sizes and shapes of the letters as they appear on the original tablets, but as far as possible the number of words

to a line is shown. A few inscriptions are printed here that were prepared but never used. For instance the Columbus inscription, which had been requested, interfered with the sculptural design of the great monument in Washington, and was therefore wisely omitted. Frequently during Mr. Eliot's last years, he was asked to list his inscriptional writings, but painstakingly as they had been prepared, he had kept almost no record of them and could no longer recall them. The following examples, from over one hundred so far traced, have been assembled after considerable reseai-ch. The Harvard College Library has kindly consented to the use of one of its special bookplates as a frontispiece to this voIume. GRACE ELIOT C H E S T N U T H I L L , MASSACHUSETTS

20 February

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INSCRIPTIONS

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MCDXXXVI-MDIV GENOESE NAVIGATOR AND GEOGRAPHER DISCOVERER OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT BELIEVING THAT THE OCEAN WEST OF EUROPE WASHED THE SAME INDIES WHICH OTHERS HAD REACHED BY GOING EASTWARD HE SOUGHT FROM REIGNING PRINCES THE MEANS OF TESTING HIS BELIEF APPEALING INSISTENTLY BUT FOR TEN YEARS IN VAIN TO THEIR RELIGIOUS ZEAL AND THEIR LOVE OF GOLD AND EMPIRE IN MCDXCII THEIR FERDINAND AND EQUIPPED HIM AND NAMED OF ALL THE LANDS

CATHOLIC MAJESTIES ISABELLA OF SPAIN FOR HIS VOYAGE HIM VICEROY HE MIGHT DISCOVER

THEN HE SAILED BOLDLY INTO THE UNKNOWN UNTIL HE GAME NOT TO THE INDIES BUT TO FAIR ISLANDS LYING OFF AN UNNAMED CONTINENT IN THREE LATER VOYAGES MCDXCIII-MDIV HE EXTENDED HIS DISCOVERIES AND THE SPANISH DOMINIONS BUT SUFFERED MANY HARDSHIPS EXPERIENCED THE INGRATITUDE OF PRINCES AND SAW THE RUIN OF HIS HOPES HIS ACHIEVEMENTS ILLUSTRATE THE FORCE WHICH LIES IN A STRONG IMAGINATION A PERSISTENT BELIEF AND DAUNTLESS RESOLUTION THEY GAVE TO CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION A NEW WORLD AND WON FOR HIM UNDYING FAME For a Monument to Columbus igii 13

IN MEMORY OF

CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH THE ONLY TRAINED SOLDIER IN THE PILGRIM COMMUNITY ALWAYS THEIR MILITARY COMMANDER BUT ALSO A VALUABLE CIVIL SERVANT AND A WISE PROMOTER OF THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE PILGRIM STOCK COMPANY IN FIGHT FEARLESS IMPETUOUS AND RESOLUTE IN CIVIL AFFAIRS CAUTIOUS AND FIRM IN BUSINESS SHREWD JUST AND FAR-SEEING A CONSCIENTIOUS AND HIGH-MINDED LEADER OF DEVOUT MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUNDED IN A WILDERNESS A TOLERANT CHURCH AND A FREE STATE

Standish Monument Duxbury, Massachusetts 1918

14

THE PILGRIM FATHERS WERE SEPARATISTS FROM THE ENGLISH CHURCH THEY HELD THAT ANY CONVENIENT NUMBER OF BELIEVERS MIGHT FORM THEMSELVES INTO A CHURCH AND CHOOSE THEIR OWN OFFICERS THEY ENTERED INTO A COVENANT OF THE LORD BY WHICH THEY JOINED THEMSELVES WHILE IN ENGLAND INTO A CHURCH SOCIETY IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE GOSPEL TO WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS MADE KNOWN OR TO BE MADE KNOWN UNTO THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR BEST ENDEAVORS WHATSOEVER IT SHOULD COST THEM

Standish Monument Duxbury, Massachusetts igi8

15

EZEKIEL CHEEVER HEAD MASTER OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL 1670 -1708 BORN IN LONDON 25 JANUARY 1614 DIED IN BOSTON 21 AUGUST 1708 ENTERED AT EMMANUEL COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE 12 JANUARY 1632 ARRIVED IN BOSTON 1637 A FOUNDER OF THE NEW HÄVEN CHURCH IN 1639 DEPUTY TO THE GENERAL COURT 1646 SCHOOLMASTER AT NEW HÄVEN IPSWICH AND CHARLESTOWN AUTHOR OF THE LATIN ACCIDENCE USED IN NEW ENGLAND BY FIVE GENERATIONS FOR SEVENTY YEARS A SKILLFUL DILIGENT FAITHFUL TEACHER OF GREEK AND LATIN TO YOUNG NEW ENGLAND PURITANS HE TAUCHT ALSO BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE INDEPENDENCE OF SPIRIT PIETY HONOR REASONABLENESS AND JOY IN EARNEST WORK

First Church in Boston Eoston, Massachusetts zgij

i6

JOHN LEVERETT P R E S I D E N T OF HARVARD COLLEGE 1707-1724 AND THE F I R S T LAY P R E S I D E N T BORN IN BOSTON 25 OCTOBER 1662 DIED IN CAMBRIDGE 3 MAY 1724 GRADUATED AT HARVARD COLLEGE 1680 TWELVE YEARS TUTOR IN THE COLLEGE AND S I X T E E N YEARS FELLOW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE E X E C U T I V E COUNCILLOR JUDGE OF PROBATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY LONDON A RIGHTEOUS FAITHFUL MAN OF CATHOLIC S P I R I T WHO IN A T I M E OF ACRID RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY F I R M L Y HELD HARVARD COLLEGE INDEPENDENT AND F R E E First Church in Boston Boston, Massachusetts 1917

17

GEORGE WASHINGTON 1732 -1799 SOLDIER AND STATESMAN MILITIA OFFICER FOR COLONIAL VIRGINIA 1751-58 DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES OF 1774 AND 1775 REBEL IN ARMS AGAINST THE ENGLISH CROWN 1775-83 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1789-97 HERO AND PILOT FOR ALL ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES DOWN THE CENTURIES

For a Washington Memorial in England ig2i

i8

GEORGE WASHINGTON 1732 - 1 7 9 9 SOLDIER AND

STATESMAN

CALM WISE AND IN WAR AND IN

FIRM PEACE

A MAN OF STRONG

PASSIONS

A N D G R E A T POSSESSIONS ALL

CONTROLLED

AND DIRECTED TOWARDS PUBLIC A MAN OF I N T E G R I T Y AND COMMANDING OF THE THEREFORE THE

THE

PEOPLE

HE FOUNDED

SECURELY

REPUBLIC

AND BECAME A

HERO

AND A GUIDE TOWARDS AND COOPERATION ENGLISH-SPEAKING

For a Washington Memorial in England 1^21

19

HONOR

CONFIDENCE

MASS OF HIS

AMERICAN

SERVICE

FOR

UNITY ALL

PEOPLES

OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE BUILT IN 1729 HERE WERE HELD THE TOWN MEETINGS THAT USHERED IN THE REVOLUTION HERE SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES OTIS AND JOSEPH WARREN EXHORTED HERE THE MEN OF BOSTON PROVED THEMSELVESINDEPENDENT COURAGEOUS FREEMEN WORTHY TO RAISE ISSUES WHICH WERE TO CONCERN THE LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS OF MILLIONS YET UNBORN

Old South Meeting Boston,

House

Massachusetts I9H

20

THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE A MONUMENT OF THE REVOLUTION A PLACE FOR PATRIOTIC INSPIRATION AND INSTRUCTION HERE THE MEN OF BOSTON PROVED THEMSELVES BRAVE INDEPENDENT FREEMEN WORTHY TO WIN AND TRANSMIT PUBLIC L I B E R T Y UNDER LAW

Old South Meeting House Boston, Massachusetts

21

ON THESE HEIGHTS DÜRING THE NIGHT OF MARCH 4 1776 THE AMERICAN TROOPS BESIEGING BOSTON BUILT TWO REDOUBTS WHICH MADE THE HARBOR AND TOWN UNTENABLE BY THE BRITISH FLEET AND GARRISON ON MARCH 17 THE BRITISH FLEET CARRYING 11000 EFFECTIVE MEN AND 1000 REFUGEES DROPPED DOWN TO NANTASKET ROADS AND THENCEFORTH BOSTON WAS FREE A STRONG BRITISH FORCE HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM ONE OF THE UNITED AMERICAN COLONIES

Evacuation Monument Boston, Massachusetts igo2

22

BENJAMIN THOMPSON COUNT RUMFORD BORN IN WOBURN M A R 26 1753 DIED IN P A R I S AUG 21 1814 THE EARLIEST SCIENTIFIC PHILANTHROPIST HE DESIGNED PUBLIC GARDENS A N D BY M A N Y INVENTIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMFORTS A N D E N J O Y M E N T S OF THE PEOPLE HE PROVED THAT HEAT IS MOTION AND HAD A G L I M P S E OF THE G R E A T DOCTRINE KNOWN L A T E R AS THE CONSERVATION OF E N E R G Y IN EXILE HE WON HIGH P L A C E S OF T R U S T AND C O M M A N D

Benjamin

Thompson Woburn,

{Count Rumford) Massachusetts 1899

Statue

23

IN THIS CHURCH

WILLIAM ELLERT

CHANNING

PREACHING FROM THE TEXT "PROVE ALL THINGS: HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD" DEFINED AMERICAN UNITARIANISM AND GAVE COHERENCE AND DIRECTION TO THE UNFOLDING MOVEMENT ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER FOLLOWERS OF HIS ASSEMBLED IN THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF UNITARIAN AND OTHER CHRISTIAN CHURCHES REJOICE TO DECLARE THEIR GRATITUDE AND LOYALTY TO HIM AS A GREAT CHRISTIAN PROPHET AND TEACHER

First Unitarian Church Baltimore, Maryland igig

24

IN MEMORY OF

CHARLES BULFINCH OF BOSTON THE FIRST NEW ENGLAND ARCHITECT BORN 1763 DIED 1844 EDUCATED AT HARVARD COLLEGE AND BY FOREIGN TRAVEL CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN FROM 1797 TO 1818 A PERIOD OF GREAT IMPROVEMENTS FROM 1818 TO 1830 THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON AMONG HIS IMPORTANT DESIGNS WERE THE FIRST THEATRE IN BOSTON 1793 THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE 1795 THE FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BOSTON 1803 FANEUIL HALL ENLARGED 1805 UNIVERSITY HALL AT HARVARD COLLEGE 1814 THE MCLEAN ASYLUM AT SOMERVILLE 1792 AND 1817 AND THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL 1818 A GRAVE MODEST JUST AND CHEERFUL MAN OF SIMPLE HABITS CLEAR INTELLIGENCE HIGH PRINCIPLES AND GENTLE JUDGMENTS

State House Boston, Massachusetts i8g8

25

TO THE FIFTY FOURTH

OF MASSACHUSETTS

REGIMENT

INFANTRY THE WHITE OFFICERS

TAKING LIFE AND HONOR IN THEIR HANDS - GAST IN THEIR LOT WITH MEN OF A DESPISED RAGE UNPROVED IN WAR AND RISKED DEATH AS INGITERS OF SERVILE INSURREGTION IF TAKEN PRISONERS - BESIDES ENGOUNTERING ALL THE GOMMON PERILS OF GAMP MARGH AND BATTLE THE BLAGK RANK AND FILE VOLUNTEERED WHEN DISASTER GLOUDED THE UNION GAUSE-SERVED WITHOUT PAY FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS TILL GIVEN THAT OF WHITE TROOPS FAGED THREATENED ENSLAVEMENT IF GAPTURED-WERE BRAVE IN AGTIONPATIENT UNDER HEAVY AND DANGEROUS LABORS-AND GHEERFUL AMID HARDSHIPS AND PRIVATIONS TOGETHER THEY GAVE TO THE NATION AND THE WORLD UNDYING PROOF THAT AMERIGANS OF AFRIGAN DESGENT POSSESS THE PRIDE GOURAGE AND DEVOTION OF THE PATRIOT SOLDIER-ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND SUGH AMERIGANS ENLISTED UNDER THE UNION FLAG IN M • D • GGGLXIII-M • D • GGGLXV

Robert Gould Shaw Boston Common^ Boston,

Monument Massachusetts

1897

26

TO THE MEN OF BOSTON WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY ON LAND AND SEA IN THE WAR WHICH KEPT THE UNION WHOLE DESTROYED SLAVERY AND MAINTAINED THE CONSTITUTION THE GRATEFUL CITY HAS BUILT THIS MONUMENT THAT THEIR EXAMPLE M A Y SPEAK TO COMING GENERATIONS

Soldiers and Sailors Monument Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts 1877 Protahly thefirstinscription aritten by C. W. E.

27

THESE MEN IN OPENING YOUTH OR VIGOROUS PRIME LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES THAT THE REPUBLIC MIGHT LIVE READER WHAT CAN YOU DO THAT THEIR SACRIFICE MAY BEAR FÜLL FRUIT? SO LIVE AS TO MAKE MEN FREER HAPPIER AND MORE UNITED SO LIVE THAT YOUR COUNTRYMEN MAY ONE D A Y SAY OF YOU AS OF THEM HIS MEMORY IS F R A G R A N T AND BLESSED

For a Memorial Window to the Harvard College Civil War Dead Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1897 A Latin translation mu used

38

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS DD A P R E A C H E R - S T R O N G - F E R V E N T - UPLIFTING A COURAGEOUS T H I N K E R - A PERSUASIVE ORATOR A PATRIOT LOVING F R E E D O M - I N D I G N A N T OF WRONG FORTY-THREE YEARS MINISTER OF THIS CHURCH TO WHICH HE GAVE THE NAME ALL SOULS PRESIDENT OF THE U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION FROM 1861 TO 1878 BORN IN BOSTON JUNE IITH 1814 DIED IN NEW YORK JANUARY 30TH 1882 A LIFE LONG P H I L A N T H R O P I S T - A N ARDENT GENEROUS FRIEND JOYOUS WITH THE J O Y F U L - T E N D E R WITH THE SORROWFUL A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN TRUSTING IN GOD AND HOPING ALL THINGS OF MEN

All Souls Church New York City

1885

29

RALPH WALDO EMERSON A REVERENT INTERPRETER OF NATURE MAN AND GOD BORN IN BOSTON 25 MAY 1803 DIED IN CONCORD 27 APRIL 1882 TEACHER AND PREACHER POET AND PROPHET HE TAUCHT THE WORTH OF MANNERS SELF-RELIANCE AND CHARACTER OF BEAUTY AND DUTY OF EDUCATION FAMILY LIFE AND PUBLIC LIBERTY HE READ IN NATURE ETERNAL LAW AND BADE MEN LISTEN TO THE IMMANENT SPIRIT

First Church in Boston Boston, Massachusetts

30

IN MEMORY OF

WILLIAM GREENLEAF ELIOT BORN 1811

DIED 1887

NEW ENGLANDER BY BIRTH LINEAGE AND EDUCATION MINISTER BY EARLY AND EAGER CHOICE ORDAINED EVANGELIST AT CHANNING'S CHURCH IN BOSTON PREACHER AND PASTOR IN ST. LOUIS FROM 1834 TO HIS DEATH EVANGELIST FOR RELIGION MORALITY EDUCATION AND PHILANTHROPY PIONEER OF EDUCATION IN ST. LOUIS FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO THE UNIVERSITY CONSISTENT ADVOCATE OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION ON RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC GROUNDS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR BUT FROM 1863 ALSO AS AN EFFECTIVE UNION WAR MEASURE ORGANIZER OF THE WESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION IN 1861 WHICH SERVED SOLDIERS SAILORS REFUGEES AND SICK PEOPLE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF PARTY COLOR OR CREED DÜRING FOUR YEARS OF WIDESPREAD ANTAGONISMS AND SUFFERINGS IN THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST POTENT GENERATOR OF THE PUBLIC SPIRIT THAT WORKS FOR THE GENERAL GOOD

(iVo/ used)

igzi

31

TOWARD THE LAKE

TO T H E BOLD

MEN

T H E I R NAMES R E M E M B E R E D OR

FORGOTTEN

WHO FIRST EXPLORED THROUGH PERILS

MANIFOLD

T H E SHORES LAKES RIVERS MOUNTAINS VALLEYS A N D PLAINS OF THIS NEW

A FEW

WORLD

OF MANY RACES

DARED TOILED

TONGUES

CREEDS

AND SUFFERED

AND AIMS

MYRIADS ENJOY

B U T ALL H E R O E S

THE FRUITS

OF DISCOVERY

T H E WILDERNESS A N D T H E SOLITARY PLACE SHALL BE GLAD FOR

THEM

TO T H E

TO T H E

BRAVE SETTLERS

BRAVE W O M E N

WHO LEVELLED

WHO IN

FORESTS

SOLITUDES

CLEAREDFIELDS

AMID

M A D E P A T H S BY

STRANGE

DANGERS

LAND AND WATER

AND

HEAVY TOIL

AND PLANTED

REARED

COMMONWEALTHS

FAMILIES

AND MADE

HOMES

" M y plan," Mr. Eliot wrote, "was tocommemorate on theside toward thelake theexplorers and pioneers in the literal sense, and on the side toward the Court of Honor the pioneers of civil and religious liberty. The inscription beginning ' To the bold men,' on the side toward

Water-gate of the World"s Fain Chicago, Illinois 1S93 32

TOWARD THEI COURT OF HONOR TO T H E PIONEERS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS

LIBERTY

BUT BOLDER THEY WHO FIRST OFF-CAST T H E I R MOORINGS FROM T H E HABITABLE FAST A N D V E N T U R E D C H A R T L E S S O N T H E SEA OF STORM-ENGENDERING

CIVIL LIBERTY

LIBERTY

TOLERATION

T H E MEANS

IN

OF BUILDING UP

RELIGION

T H E BEST FRUIT

PERSONAL AND

OF T H E LAST

NATIONAL CHARACTER

FOUR

CENTURIES

Y E SHALL KNOW T H E T R U T H A N D T H E T R U T H SHALL M A K E YOU F R E E

I FREEDOM DWELL

WE

WITH KNOWLEDGE:

HIGHLY

I ABIDE

THAT

RESOLVE

GOVERNMENT

W I T H M E N BY

OF THE

CULTURE TRAINED

BY T H E

AND FORTIFIED

HERE

FOR

PEOPLE PEOPLE THE

CONSCIENCE

PEOPLE

M Y S C E P T R E IS

SHALL N O T P E R I S H

AND LAW MY SWORD

FROM THE

EARTH

the lake, prepared the way for Lowell's splendid verse on the other side, ' But bolder they, etc.' That verse, the two Bible texts, Lowell's lines on the left panel toward the Court of Honor, and Lincoln's sentence on the right lower panel I selected; the rest I wrote."

Water-gate of the World's Fair Chicago, Illinois 1^93 33

T H E R E ARE T H R E E THINGS WHICH MAKE A NATION GREAT AND

POWERFUL,

A F E R T I L E SOIL, BUSY W O R K S H O P S A N D EASY CONVEYANCE FOR

MEN

A N D GOODS F R O M PLACE T O PLACE (BACON)

Transportation Building Warles Fair, Chicago i8g2

34

MISCUIT UTILE DULCE IN MEMORY OF

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES TEACHER OF ANATOMY ESSAYIST POET BORN AUGUST XXIX MDCCCIV DIED OCTOBER VII MDCCCXCIV IN HIS CONVERSATION AND WRITINGS SHONE KEEN INSIGHT WIT DEVOTION TO TRUTH LOVE OF HOME FRIENDS AND COUNTRY AND A CHEERFUL PHILOSOPHY A TRUE SON OF NEW ENGLAND HIS WORKS DECLARE THEIR BIRTHPLACE AND THEIR TIMES BUT THEIR INFLUENCE FAR TRANSCENDS THESE LIMITS

King's Chapel Boston, Massachusetts 1894

35

STATUE OF POETRY MILTOKT H I T H E R , AS TO

THEIR

FOUNTAIN, OTHER REPAIRING, GOLDEN

URNS

IN

STARS

THEIR

DRAW

LIGHT

STATUE OF PHILOSOPHY BACON THE INQUIRY, AND

KNOWLEDGE,

B E L I E F OF

TRUTH

IS T H E S O V E R E I G N OF H U M A N

GOOD

NATURE

STATUE OF ART LOWELL AS O N E L A M P ANOTHER SO

NOR

LIGHTS

GROWS

LESS,

NOBLENESS

ENKINDLETH

NOBLENESS

STATUE OF RELIGION MICAH WHAT

DOTH T H E LORD

OF T H E E , B U T TO DO TO LOVE

REQUIRE JUSTLY,

M E R C Y , A N D TO

HUMBLY

WITH THY

For Symbolical Statues Congressional Library Washington, District of Columbia 1896

36

WALK

GOD?

STATUE OF COMMERCE WE

TASTE

OF ARABIA THE

THE

YET

NEVER

SCORCHING BRINGS

SPICES

SUN

THEM

PEEL

WHICH

FÖRTH

STATUE OF HISTORY TENNYSON ONE ONE

GOD, ONE

ELEMENT, DIVINE

THE

AND

EVENT,

WHOLE

LAW,

ONE TO

FAR-OFF,

WHICH

CREATION

MOVES

STATUE OF LAW HOOKER OF L A W

THERE

CAN

BE

LESS A C K N O W L E D G M E N T THAT

HER

HARMONY

VOICE OF THE

IS

NO THAN

THE

WORLD

STATUE OF SCIENCE PSALMS THE

HEAVENS

THE AND

GLORY THE

SHOWETH

For Symbolkal

Statues

Congressional

Library

DECLARE OF

GOD

FIRMAMENT

HIS

Washington^ District of Columbia 1896

37

HANDIWORK

WELCOME T H E COMING, SPEED T H E PARTING

GUEST

(POPE — FROM HOMER)

V I R T U E ALONE IS S W E E T SOCIETY; I T K E E P S T H E KEY T O ALL H E R O I C H E A R T S A N D O P E N S YOU A W E L C O M E I N T H E M ALL (EMERSON)

L E T ALL T H E E N D S T H O U AIM'ST AT BE THY COUNTRY'S-THY G O D ' S - A N D

TRUTH'S

(SHAKSPERE—HENRY V I I I )

BE NOBLE, A N D T H E NOBLENESS T H A T LIES IN O T H E R MEN, SLEEPING BUT NEVER DEAD, WILL RISE IN MAJESTY TO M E E T THINE OWN (J. R . LOWELL)

H E THAT WOULD BRING HOME

THE

W E A L T H OF T H E INDIES MUST CARRY T H E WEALTH OF T H E INDIES WITH SO I T IS I N T R A V E L L I N G - A

MUST CARRY KNOWLEDGE W I T H IE H E WOULD BRING HOME

HIM

MAN HIM

KNOWLEDGE (S. JOHNSON)

SYMBOLICAL STATUE OF FIRE F I R E - G R E A T E S T OF DISCOVERIES ENABLING M A N TO LIVE I N VARIOUS CLIMATES USE M A N Y FOODS, A N D C O M P E L T H E FORCES OF NATURE TO DO HIS WORK

Union Station Washington, District of Columbia igio 38

SYMBOLICAL STATUE OF ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY-CARRIER "

OF LIGHT A N D

POWER

DEVOURER OF T I M E A N D SPACE, BEARER OF H U M A N SPEECH OVER L A N D A N D SEA

GREATEST SERVANT OF MAN, ITSELF

UNKNOWN

THOU H A S T P U T A L L T H I N G S U N D E R HIS

FEET (PSALM 8. 6)

SYMBOLICAL STATUE or FREEDOM SWEETENER OF HUT A N D HALL BRINGER OF LIFE OUT OF NAUGHT F R E E D O M , O! F A I R E S T O F

ALL

THE DAUGHTERS OF TIME AND

THOUGHT (J. R . LOWELL)

SYMBOLICAL STATUE OF IMAGINATION MAN'S IMAGINATION HAS CONCEIVED

ALL

N U M B E R S A N D L E T T E R S ALL TOOLS VESSELS AND SHELTERS E V E R Y ART AND T R A D E PHILOSOPHY A N D POETRY AND ALL

T H E TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU

ALL

POLITIES

FREE (JOHN 8. 32)

SYMBOLICAL STATUE OF AGRICULTURE T H E F A R M - B E S T HOME OF T H E FAMILY, MAIN SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEALTH, FOUNDATION OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY, AND NATURAL

PROVIDENCE

SYMBOLICAL STATUE OF MECHANICS THE OLD MECHANIC ARTS - CONTROLLING FORCES, BUILD NEW HIGHWAYS FOR

AND MEN, OVER-RIDE THE OCEAN AND THE VERY ETHER CARRY HUMAN

NEW

GOODS MAKE

THOUGHT

T H E D E S E R T SHALL R E J O I C E A N D BLOSSOM AS T H E

ROSE

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ORIGINAL DRAFT CARRIER

OF N E W S AND

INSTRUMENT PROMOTER AMONG

KNOWLEDGE

OF T R A D E A N D

OF M U T U A L

COMMERCE

ACQUAINTANCE

MEN AND NATIONS AND OF PEACE AND

CARRIER

OF LOVE A N D

MESSENGER

OF

SYMPATHY

FRIENDSHIP

CONSOLER OF T H E

LONELY

BOND OF T H E S C A T T E R E D ENLARGER

HENCE

GOODWILL

OF T H E

FAMJLY

COMMON

LIFE

FINAL DRAFT AS REVISED BY PRESIDENT WILSON CARRIER

OF N E W S A N D

INSTRUMENT PROMOTER

OF M U T U A L

MESSENGER

GOODWILL

MEN AND

NATIONS

OF S Y M P A T H Y

S E R V A N T OF P A R T E D CONSOLER OF T H E OF THE

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AND

LOVE

FRIENDS LONELY

BOND OF T H E S C A T T E R E D ENLARGER

INDUSTRY

ACQUAINTANCE

OF P E A C E A N D OF AMONG

KNOWLEDGE

OF T R A D E AND

FAMILY

COMMON

LIFE

LITERATURE THE STOREHOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE RECORD OF CIVILIZATION THE FULCRUM FOR THE LEVER OF PROGRESS H I S T O R Y - T H E STORY OF THE HUMAN RACE, IN CONFLICT WITH NATURE AND WITH ITS OWN ELEMENTAL PASSIONS BUT EVER ASPIRING B I O G R A P H Y - T H E STORIES OF LIVES THAT COUNTED IN THEIR TIMES FOR LOVE OR HATE FOR MISERY AND WOE OR WELL-BEING AND JOY PHILOSOPH Y - T H E THOUGHTS OF MEN ABOUT HUMAN THINKING REASONING AND IMAGINING AND THE REAL VALUES IN HUMAN EXISTENCE R E L I G I O N - REVERENCING TRUTH, SERVING JUSTICE PRACTISING GENTLENESS MERCY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVING GOD AND THE NEIGHBOR

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T H E PEOPLE'S LAWS DEFINE USAGES, ORDAIN RIGHTS AND DUTIES, SECURE PUBLIC SAFETY, DEFEND LIBERTY, TEACH REVERENCE AND OBEDIENCE, AND ESTABLISH JUSTICE

Frieze oj Comice, St. Louis County Court Haust Duluth, Minnesota igo8

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IN HONOR OF

J A M E S RUSSELL LOWELL BORN HERE 1819 AND DIED HERE 1891 MAN OF LETTERS ESSAYIST HUMORIST CRITIC AND POET POLITICAL SEER AND PATRIOT INTERPRETER OF AMERICAN IDEALS

IN THE HOUSE ADJOINING JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WAS BORN AND THERE HE DIED IN THESE GROUNDS HE PLAYED AS A BOY AND FOUND INSPIRATION DELIGHT AND WISDOM WHEN A MAN At entrances to Lovoell Park Cambridge, Massachusetts

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IN MEMORY OF

HORACE TRACY P I T K I N BORN AT PHILADELPHIA 28 OCTOBER 1869 GRADUATED AT YALE COLLEGE 1892 AND AT UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 1896 MISSIONARY IN CHINA 1897-1900 KILLED BY THE BOXERS AT PAOTING-FU 1 JULY 1900 IN APRIL 1900 ALARMED BY THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY HE SENT HIS WIFE AND CHILD HOME FROM SHANGHAI AND RETURNED FIVE DAYS JOURNEY TO HIS ISOLATED POST "NOR DEEM THAT ACTS HEROIC WAIT ON CHANCE . . . THE MAN'S WHOLE LIFE PRELUDES THE SINGLE DEED"

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IN MEMORY OF

JESSE WILLIAM LAZEAR BORN 2 MAY 1866 AT BALTIMORE GRADUATED IN ARTS AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN 1889 AND IN MEDICINE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN 1892 IN 1895-96 ASSISTANT RESIDENT PHYSICIAN IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE YELLOW FEVER COMMISSION IN 1900 WITH THE RANK OF ACTING ASSISTANT SURGEON HE DIED OF YELLOW FEVER AT QUEMADOS CUBA 25 SEPTEMBER 1900

WITH MORE THAN THE COURAGE AND DEVOTION OF THE SOLDIER HE RISKED AND LOST HIS LIFE TO SHOW HOW A FEARFUL PESTILENCE IS COMMUNICATED AND HOW ITS RAVAGES MAY BE PREVENTED Medical Amphitheatre Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, 1904

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ROGER WOLCOTT BORN XIII JULY MDCCCXLVII DIED XIII DECEMBER MCM GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS MDCCCXCVII MCM FAITHFUL GENEROUS CITIZEN HIGH MINDED PUBLIC SERVANT WISE SINCERE DEVOUT A LOVER OF HOME CHURCH AND COUNTRY

Kings Chapel Boston, Massachusetts 1904

SAMUEL HOAR SEPT 27, 1845

APRIL 11, 1904

LAWYER, EFFECTIVE AS ADVOCATE FORMIDABLE AS OPPONENT DESIROUS TO PROMOTE JUSTICE AND GOODWILL AMONG MEN WISE FRIEND OF HARVARD COLLEGE AND ITS DEVOTED SERVANT AS OVERSEER AND FELLOW GENUINE NEW ENGLAND FREEMAN TOWNSMAN AND HOME-MAKER SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR LOVER OF AMERICAN LIBERTY ANIMATING COMRADE, LOYAL FRIEND AND GOOD NEIGHBOR STRONG RELIGIOUS BELIEVER OF SIMPLE CREED AND LOFTY HOPE

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THIS FOUNTAIN COMMEMORATES THE STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER OF

JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL 1843-1905 WIFE FOR ONE YEAR OF A PATRIOT SOLDIER WIDOW AT T W E N T Y - O N E SERVANT OF NEW YORK STATE AND CITY IN THEIR PUBLIC CHARITIES SINCERE CANDID COURAGEOUS AND TENDER BRINGING HELP AND HOPE TO THE FAINTING AND INSPIRING OTHERS TO CONSECRATED LABORS

Lowell Fountain Bryant Park.

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IN MEMORY OF

CHARLES FOLLEN MC KIM ARCHITECT SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL STUDENT 1866-1867 HON. A. M. HARVARD 1890 DIED SEPT. 1909 AGED 62 POSSESSING A KEEN INTELLIGENCE AND A PURE TASTE AND CAPABLE OF GENEROUS FRIENDSHIPS AND STEADFAST DEVOTIONS HE GREATLY SERVED HIS ART AND HIS PROFESSION AND PROMOTED AMONG HIS COUNTRYMEN THE LOVE OF BEAUTY GRACE AND GRANDEUR

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NICHOLS FIELD A MEMORIAL TO

EDGAR HAMILTON NICHOLS 1856-1910 A FOUNDER AND BUILDER OF THE SCHOOL A LOVER OF WHOLESOME PLAY AND AN INDEFATIGABLE WORKER BELOVED BY TWENTY-FIVE SCHOOL CLASSES AS A DEVOTED TEACHER AND FRIEND A PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZEN A H I G H - M I N D E D UNSELFISH AND HAPPY MAN

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SIR ROBERT HART, BARONET, G.C.M.G. 1835-1911 INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS FOUNDER OF CHINA'S LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE ORGANIZER AND ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL POST OFFICE TRUSTED COUNSELLOR OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TRUE FRIEND OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE MODEST, PATIENT, SAGACIOUS AND RESOLUTE HE OVERCAME FORMIDABLE OBSTACLES AND ACCOMPLISHED A WORK OF GREAT BENEFICENCE FOR CHINA AND THE WORLD

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ISIDOR STRAUS BORN 1845 DIED 1912 SAGACIOUS & UPRIGHT MAN OF BUSINESS GENEROUS GIVER TO EDUCATION AND CHARITY LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER THOUGHTFUL DOER OF KIND ACTS EVERY DAY

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EDWIN UPTON CURTIS 1861

1922

MAYOR OF BOSTON MEMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN PARK COMMISSION COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS COMMITTEE ON BILL OF RIGHTS COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

COURAGEOUS FAITHFUL SERVANT OF CITY COMMONWEALTH AND NATION

HE GAVE HIS LIFE IN RESOLUTE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC DUTY

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A L E X A N D E R GRAHAM BELL INVENTOR OF THE APPARATUS WHICH FIRST TRANSMITTED SPEECH THROUGH LONG LINES OF ELECTRIFIED WIRE LIVED FROM 1873 TO 1876 IN A HOUSE ON THIS SPOT OWNED BY MRS. MARY ANN (BROWN) SANDERS IN THESE YEARS BUT NOT CHIEFLY IN SALEM BELL MADE FUNDAMENTAL INVENTIONS THAT RESULTED IN THE TELEPHONE AND WROTE THE SPECIFICATIONS OF HIS INVINCIBLE PATENT OF MARCH 1876 HERE HE GAVE LESSONS IN VISIBLE SPEECH TO MRS. SANDERS'S SIX-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON WHO WAS BORN DEAF AND SUPERINTENDED THE CHILD'S EDUCATION COMPENSATION FOR THIS SERVICE WAS AT TIMES HIS ONLY RESOÜRCE DÜRING PART OF THIS PERIOD HE WAS MADE WELCOME TO THE ATTIC OF THE HOUSE AS HIS LABORATORY FOR EVENING WORK HIS WORK IN THE DAYTIME BEING DONE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY WHERE HE WAS A LECTURER ON VOCAL PHYSIOLOGY AND IN A MACHINE SHOP IN BOSTON WHICH BELONGED TO A MANUFACTURER OF ELECTRICAL APPARATUS THOMAS SANDERS FATHER OF THE DEAF CHILD BECAME SO MUCH INTERESTED IN BELL AND HAD SUCH FAITH IN THE VALUE OF HIS INVENTIONS THAT IN THE FOUR YEARS 1874-78 HE ADVANCED THE LARGER PART OF THE MONEY IT COST TO MAKE THE TELEPHONE A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS STRAINING HIS CREDIT AND IMPERILLING HIS OWN BUSINESS THOUSANDS OF THE FIRST TELEPHONES FOR HIRE WERE MADE WITH HIS MONEY THEREFORE THE HOUSE WHICH STOOD HERE AND THE NAME OF SANDERS ARE TO BE FOREVER ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF THE MOST BENEFICENT INVENTIONS WHICH AMERICA HAS GIVEN TO THE WORLD THE FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE ON THE TELEPHONE ILLUSTRATED BY THE ACTUAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRICALLY OF SPEECH TO AND FROM A DISTANT PLACE WAS THE ESSEX INSTITUTE LECTURE DELIVERED IN LYCEUM HALL SALEM ON FEBRUARY 12TH 1877 THE FIRST PRESS DISPATCH EVER SENT BY TELEPHONE PROCEEDED FROM THAT MEETING TO BOSTON Y. M. C. A. Building Sakm, Massachusetts ig2o 54

IN HONOR OF

CLAUDE ROUGET DE LISLE AUTHOR OF THE MARSEILLAISE THE SONG THAT BREATHES THE MARTIAL SPIRIT OF LIBERTY RESURGENT INDOMITABLE VICTORIOUS AND IN COMMEMORATION OF THE COMRADESHIP IN ARMS OF AMERICA WITH HEROIC FRANCE IN THE GLORIOUS YEAR 1918 CITIZENS OF MILWAUKEE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESENT THIS TABLET TO THE HAPPY CITY OF STRASBOURG

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CALLED BY THEIR COUNTRY THESE YOUNG MEN GAVE THEIR ALL OF EARTHLY JOY AND EXPECTATION TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY JUSTICE AND PEACE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MAY THEIR EXAMPLE INSPIRE MEN OF OTHER GENERATIONS TO A LIKE DEVOTION TO THE NOBLE CAUSES OF THE FUTURE

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TO THE PATRIOT SOLDIERS OF PETERBOROUGH WHO ANSWERED THE CALL OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR 1917 - 1918 THEY BORE THE HARDSHIPS AND TOOK THE RISKS OF CAMP, TRENCH AND BATTLE AND SERVED GALLANTLY WHEREVER STATIONED THEIR NAMES ARE INSCRIBED WITH GRATITUDE AND LOVE UPON THIS ENDURING MEMORIAL THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS MAY BE INSPIRED BY THEIR HIGH EXAMPLE World War Memorial Peterborough, New Hampshire 1923

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NEARBY IN THE LAST DAYS OF SEPTEMBER 1915 MANY MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION MEN OF DIVERSE RACES AND CREEDS WHO HAD VOLUNTEERED TO FICHT FOR REPUBLICAN FRANCE LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND A BETTER FUTURE FOR MANKIND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN FIERCE COMBAT WITH THE GERMAN INVADERS THEIR BONES WITH THOSE OF OTHER SOLDIERS OF FRANCE GATHERED FROM HASTY GRAVES LIE IN THIS HALLOWED ENCLOSURE BUILT BY THE PARENTS OF A YOUNG AMERICAN WHO ENLISTED IN THE LEGION ON JANUARY 5TH 1915 AND COMMITTED BY THEM TO THE PERPETUAL CARE OF THE MAYOR AND PEOPLE OF SOUAIN THESE MEN GAVE T H E I R ALL OF HUMAN JOY AND HOPE MAY THEIR SUPREME SACRIFICE INSPIRE IN MEN OF OTHER LANDS AND TIMES A COMPLETE DEVOTION TO PUBLIC LIBERTY ORDER AND PEACE

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IN THIS HALL STUDENTS OF WILLIAM AND MARY WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE MEANS OF TRAINING THEIR SENSES TO ACCURATE OBSERVATION AND THEIR MINDS TO SOUND INFERENCE FROM THEIR OBSERVATIONS HERE THEY WILL PUT IN PRACTICE THE LOVE OF LIBERTY AND TRUTH THE JOY IN DISCOVERY AND THE DELIGHT IN WORK BELOVED HERE THEY WILL LEARN THE VALUE OF INTIMACY WITH KINDRED SPIRITS FRANK, COURAGEOUS, AND UNSELFISH HERE THEY WILL ACQUIRE THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WITH ITS POWER, ITS ACHIEVEMENTS AND ITS INFINITE PROMISE Science Hall. College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia ig24

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THIS HEARTHSTONE IS AN ALTAR OF THE SAFE AND GRATEFUL WARMTH WHICH NOURISHES HOSPITALITY GOOD FELLOWSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP

THE FIREPLACE, HOME OF THE DANCING FLAME, THE STEADY BLAZE, AND THE GLOWING EMBERS THAT DELIGHT OUR EYES, CHEER OUR HEARTS AND KINDLE OUR HOPES

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FROM AMERICAN STUDENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY TO

D A N T E ALIGHIERI 1265 -1321 POET PHILOSOPHER SCHOLAR CREATOR OF ITALIAN AS VEHICLE OF A NOBLE LITERATURE MASTER OF BEAUTIFUL STYLE PROPHET OF JUSTICE PREACHER OF FAITH BUILDER OF A PEERLESS MONUMENT TO WOMAN

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ENTER TO GROW IN WISDOM

DEPART TO SERVE BETTER THY COUNTRY AND THY KIND

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