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Lieutenant-Commander Charles B. Lundy, U. S. N., who was made commandant of the Cadet School during the present term to succeed Captain James P. Parker '96, N. N. V., will deliver the farewell address. As yet none of the speakers have announced their subjects...
...French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne to hurl back the invading hordes, so must the spirits of our glorious heroes who faced a splendid and cruel death unflinchingly, lead us to consecrate our all for the Allied Cause," said Lieutenant Morize in his Memorial Day address in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon. The exercises, which were under the auspices of the University Memorial Society, and over which Major Henry L. Higginson '55 presided, centered about the presentation by the Society of a tablet containing the above names of University men who have been killed...
...exercises were opened with prayer by Bishop Lawrence, after which Major Higginson made a brief speech. The principal address of the day was made by Lieutenant Morize, who spoke at some length on the added significance of Memorial Day this year, and the lessons we must learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared...
Those who went to Sanders Theatre yesterday and attended the exercises of the Memorial Society can appreciate this feeling. Those who heard Lieutenant Morize deliver an address filled with sympathy, high praise for our fallen, and splendid advice for ourselves, came away better Americans. It was a meeting of serious citizens, paying the only tribute they could to our new heroes, not in any careless, foregranted spirit but with full heart and devotion. No, Memorial Day has not lost its purpose for us. It is about to become a day with more meaning than all our other national days...
Despite adverse conditions the program of the conference is unusually attractive this year. John R. Mott, who spoke at the University last fall in connection with the Y. M. C. A. campaign, will preside, and address the convention concerning his recent work behind the battle lines in Europe. A number of other prominent speakers have been engaged, and several study groups planned. Not the least interesting part of the conference will be the athletic contests with sports in the afternoons, in which teams from the various colleges will compete...