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...Memorial Library of William Henry Meeker '17, of New York City, was dedicated in the CRIMSON Sanctum last evening. The speakers were G. C. Barclay '19, President, and F. E. Parker, Jr., '18, ex-President, of the CRIMSON, Dean Yeomans, Professor Copeland and Meeker's father, Mr. Henry E. Meeker '89. All spoke of the young man's brilliant career in college, his great promise, and his splendid death...
...Edward Bangs, of Boston, who has entered the Italian Ambulance Service. In Standish Hall Wendell Davis, of New York City, has been changed from pianist to dormitory chairman in place of Seymour Wadsworth, of Middletown, Conn., who has also enlisted in the Italian Red Cross work. John Royce Meeker, of New York City, will hereafter act as pianist for the Standish chorus. In Smith Halls David Washburn Bailey, of Wollaston, has been appointed to fill the place of James Arnold Lowell, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, who has enrolled in the Royal Flying Corps of the Canadian Army...
...memorial to his son, William Henry Meeker '17, who was killed at Pau in an aviation accident on September 11, 1917, Mr. Henry E. Meeker '89 has given to the CRIMSON a library of a thousand volumes. One of the last wishes of Meeker, who was President of the CRIMSON while in College, was that if any thing happened to him while in France, his own library be given to the CRIMSON, and it is in accordance with this wish that the gift has been made...
...Memorial Library includes not only many of Meeker's own books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...
...Greene Scholarship is the third that has been established at the University within the past fortnight. The first of these was the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses"; while the second was founded as the "Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship" in memory of a graduate of that name of the class of 1897. For the duration of the war, the income from this latter scholarship may be applied for such military measures as the University may desire...