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Vancil maintained residences in both Belmont, Mass, and Madison, Conn. He is survived by his wife, the former Emily Robinsonl; his mother, Pearl Campbell and stepfather, Clyde Campbell of Columbia, S.C.; a daughter, Virginia Wilkins of Madison, Conn; two sons, Robinson of Madison, Conn. and Richard of Wayland, Mass.; two sisters, Joan Underwood of Columbia, S.C. and Mary Lynn Musgrove of Columbus, Ohio; a stepbrother, George Campbell of Levonia, Mich.; and five grandchildren...
...seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining gaze to meet yours as though she'd never seen another human being...
Sannwald was a special case--Harvard has not honored Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a graduate student who planned the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. It is reasonable to assume that Yamamoto will never be memorialized here, no matter how much time passes. And it is important to note that those who wish to honor the Confederate war dead do not claim that these men were special cases--that their actions are somehow justified by extenuating circumstances. Their proposed memorial would imply the opposite conclusion--that there was nothing wrong with fighting for the Confederacy...
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Yamamoto, who cratted Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, was shot down by American forces in 1943. He is an example of slam Harvard soldiers whom the University has chosen not to memorialize, according to HBLSA members...