Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tablet has recently been placed in the corridor of the first floor of the Cruft Laboratory. The tablet is made of bronze, and contains the following inscription...
...most important work under consideration is the placing of a tablet on University Hall commemorating the 100th anniversary of its erection in 1815. N. H. Partridge '17 is in charge of this work and it is expected that it will be definitely completed this spring...
...north end of the bridge, a tablet on the right hand column bears the following dedication, which explains the use of the scholar and soldier symbols: "This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; Adjutant-Colonel, Brevet-Brigadier and Major-General of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father by a son." Above this tablet, on the north side is the eagle, the soldier's habit, shield, helmet and banner all welded in bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed...
...column on the east side of the bridge nearest the Weld boathouse bears the same symbols only in reversed positions, the symbol of the scholar facing the north and that of the soldier toward the Stadium. On the tablet below is the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the College Yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an every present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks...
...each of the two columns at the south end of the bridge, nearest the Stadium, the same two symbols have been placed in positions corresponding to those at the opposite end of the bridge. The right hand column, as one faces the Stadium, has a tablet on which these words have been inscribed: "On either side of the river there was a tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."--Rev. XXII, 2. Above this is the symbol...