Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend J. J. Ryan, Chaplain of the Club, Mr. James Byrne '77, Fellow of Harvard College, Professor R. H. Lord '06, Mr. Daniel Sargent '13, and Professor Maurice de Wolf delivered addresses in eulogy of Professor Ford, who as recent exchange professor to France has received honorary degrees from the University of the Sorbonne and the University of Toulouse, the French Cross of the Legion of Honor, and has been made a Knight Commander of Isabella but the King of Spain...
...Sargent, The Door...
Without any heralded ceremony the canvas hanging by the Widener room in the Library was drawn back and the pictures beneath unveiled,--John Sargent's tribute to the Harvard war dead...
...figure enveloped in a black cape and hood, while Victory is a female form bearing branches of palm leaves, and held aloft by huge gray wings. On the ground beneath the feet of the three are the bodies of fallen soldiers. In the topmost section of the panel, Mr. Sargent has represented two archangels with trumpets proclaiming victory, while on scrolls flying from the trumpet heads are inscribed the words "Death and Victory...
...official action towards erecting a fitting memorial to its alumni who fell in the war. There have been many suggestions; but the only war memorials to Harvard men at present established, are from individuals, the Victor Chapman and the Fiske Fellowships, the Webster scholarship, and the Farnsworth Room. The Sargent paintings, placed where Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, are passing by hundreds every day, stand as a constant and striking reminder of how much the University's living owe to the sacrifices of its dead...