Word: allston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the memorial tablet in the new chapel will include the names of those Harvard men who fought on the side of the Central Powers is a matter for the Corporation to decide, according to Allston Burr '89, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Committee. Mr. Burr explained that originally the chapel was to be erected only in memory of those men who died while fighting for the Allied Powers. Since that time feeling has changed, however, and it is felt by many that the memorial should include all Harvard men. There is little reason to suspect that the proposal...
...fund for any other form of memorial would be a breach of trust. Many subscribers, and some for large sums, are dead. To try to un scramble the egg now would be a disgrace to the Harvard Corporation and to all other Harvard men connected with this cause. Allston Burr, Chairman Harvard War Memorial Fund Committee...
...accompanying reply to the CRIMSON'S editorial of Tuesday, Mr. Allston Burr, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Fund Committee, probably echoes the sincere sentiments of many interested alumni. Although the project was discussed and approved first by the national committee and Associated Harvard Clubs, and then by the Corporation, yet the objections of both faculty members and undergraduates have been consistently disregarded. A majority of both of the latter groups, as well as numerous alumni of the last decade, have been the most violent opponents of the plan for a new chapel in place of Appleton. The desire...
According to witnesses who arrived at the conflagration soon after its inception, the first flames burst through the roof in the central part of the building a few minutes after midnight. By 12.30 o'clock, as fresh contingents of firefighters arrived from various Boston, Allston, and Cambridge stations, the flames had already soared to a height at least twice that of the building, coloring the murky, rainladen sky with a deep crimson hue, visible for miles around...