Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among those who are familiar with the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, credit for the eradication of yellow fever from the Isthmus is given principally to the late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...
...there is a man in the U. S today who merits the title of Grand Old Man," it is Mr. Warren. His fame goes back to the Civil War when he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry on the field of battle; back to the '70s when he, astride a horse, was making Wyoming something more than an Indian playground; back to the '80s when he was Governor of the territory; back to 1890 when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding...
...been made toward raising the necessary endowment. It is also understood that these efforts have met with considerable alumni opposition to the proposed form of the memorial. Appleton Chapel is more than adequate to the religious life of contemporary Harvard. Are there not other and greater opportunities fittingly to honor Harvard's dead in the almost boundloss field of this University's activity? This, according to well-founded rumor, is the general platform upon which the opposition takes its stand...
...Administration owes it to alumni and undergraduates and above all to the fallen dead, to face it with something more tangible than a mysterious silence. Nothing could be more unfortunate than a memorial which does not bind firmly, and in the terms most intelligible to post-war Harvard, the honor and the lesson of the dead with the work and ideals of the living...
...present indications, whether a chapel would fulfill these requirements. There is an alternate scheme which would beyond question fulfill them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...