Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Americans, while from this eminence scenes of luxuriant fertility, of flourishing commerce the abodes of social happiness meet your view, forget not those who by their exertions have secured to you these blessings. These words are carved in stone on the base of the Beacon monument, perched atop Beacon Hill in the State House parking lot. The General Court placed the now famous beacon on that site in 1634, where it stood until 1790, when it was replaced by a brick and stone monument designed by Charles Bulfinch. The monument was removed in ISM when the hill was cut down to fill in what is now the Back Bay area of the city. The present monument was reproduced in stone by the Bunker Hill Monument Association in 1898. The rich words and history hold much meaning for the Suffolk University student of 1985, the year of the 50th anniversary of our College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, because we at Suffolk also have a significant history of which to be proud. And in remembering that history, we shall not forget those who by their exertions have secured for us the blessings of opportunity. You, the Suffolk graduate, are the monument to that ideal.