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...McKinlock Hall, the latest addition to the Freshman dormitory group, which was erected in memory of George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16, was formally dedicated yesterday afternoon. The ceremony, which was held in the McKinlock quadrangle before a small number of McKinlock's college friends and a large part of the students now living in McKinlock Hall, consisted of an introductory address by President Lowell and speeches by General C. P. Summerall, commander of the division in which McKinlock served, Dr. W. G. Thayer, Headmaster of St. Marks's School, and Dean C. N. Greenough...
General Summerall gave a detailed account of the engagement in which McKinlock lost his life. At the height of the German advance in the spring of 1918 Marshal Foch began to gather his forces for a counter advance. The first division of Americans was with the tenth French army which was in the van of the new forces thrown in the way of the victorious enemy. McKinlock was with the first division as a brigade staff officer and was scouting the German lines on intelligence duty when he fell. His death did not come, however, until he had rendered important...
...Thayer, who had known McKinlock as a student at St. Mark's, paid tribute to the high character and dauntless courage which had always been distinguishing traits of his. Dean Greenough, the last speaker of the exercises, set forth briefly the value of the gift made by Mr. and Mrs. McKinlock to Harvard and in particular to the members of future Freshman classes, as well as the appropriate character of such a gift as a memorial to a former Harvard student who lost his life in the Great...
...Freshmen living in the dormitory itself, and about 40 classmates and personal friends of George Alexander McKinlock's as invited guests will be admitted to the ceremonies this afternoon...
...Junior and Senior class crews as well as those on the McKinlock dormitory eight are entitled to medals also. These modals will be given out to the captains or strokes of the crows in D-35 Gore Hall this morning from 8.30 until 1 o'clock or this evening from 8 until 10 o'clock. Medals have already been given to the Junior and Senior 150-pound crew...