Related material from this journal (Sept. 6, 2013) —
"Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be
content to be as though they had not been, to be found
in the Register of God, not in the record of man."
— Sir Thomas Browne
See also the post Monolith of August 23, 2014, as well as
the history of Farkas Hall at Harvard and posts with that tag.