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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...series of articles discussing various plans for the Harvard Memorial is appearing from time to time in issues of the CRIMSON. A different plan is set forth in a communication in the Alumni Bulletin, which proposes that the Harvard Endowment Fund be changed into a Harvard Memorial Fund. But such a plan seems undesirable for it would commercialize the spirit of commemoration which should be the key note of the final memorial. Time alone will determine whether any of the plans under consideration will be selected, but the CRIMSON will be glad to publish any criticism or any new suggestions...
With the exception of R. P. Hallowell '20, who will take the place of L. B. Evans '20 in centre field, the Crimson line-up will be the same as was announced for Saturday. F. K. Bullard '20 will be in the box, and T. H. Gammack '20 will catch. Kirkland, the star Tiger twirler is Princeton's pitcher...
...Books are equipped here for our returning troops as well as for those who have been going overseas," said Dr. Mawson in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and these must often be secured at very short notice to supply a transport leaving more or less suddenly. The reason we require so many more books is that they don't last, for whereas in public libraries a book may pass through the hands of 30 borrowers before it is worn out, in the Library War Service-especially on shipboard,-a volume rarely outlives the handling by five different persons...
...hope that the undergraduates at Harvard will form a 'Harvard Legion' similar to the 'American Legion' which has just been organized," said Lieut-Col. Theodore Roosevelt '09 in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter in New York on Saturday, "and I recommend that steps be taken at once for its formation and its union with the National Legion. As a result of the recent convention at St. Louis, the plans for the organization of an American Legion of all men who have been in the service of the United States during the World War is well under way, and local...
...large auditorium building is the third of the series of suggestions for a memorial in honor of the members of the University who gave their lives in the great war. In previous issues of the CRIMSON, the plans for a new gymnasium, and a memorial shaft to be erected in a park on the west bank of the Charles River were briefly considered. This article will deal with the possibilities, offered by an auditorium as a memorial to the University's dead...