Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON has no desire to be drawn into the controversy over the tablets in Memorial Hall. It was mentioned in this column because the subject is one of interest to all Harvard men. We realize of course that when Memorial Hall was built, it was only to commemorate, as its dedicatory tablet states, the service of Harvard men to the Union cause. But the memorial movement was started in the year that the war closed, and the building was finished in 1874. Since that time thee sectional bitterness has largely passed away; the animating motives of both sides are appreciated...
...dedication tablet reads as follows...
...committee in charge of the Spanish War Memorial tablet which is to be placed in the Union has reported that it has received up to this time subscriptions amounting to $2,684. The tablet in place is to cost $3,000, and therefore $316 is needed to complete the work. There are doubtless many Harvard men who have not yet given to this fund who would like to do so. Subscriptions may be sent to Henry S. Thompson '99, Treasurer of the Union, 131 State street, Boston...
...memory of the eleven men out of the 389 graduates and undergraduates of Harvard entering the Spanish War who died as a result of their service. Mr. Bela Lyon Pratt, the well-known sculptor who designed the medal in honor of President Eliot, has completed the model for the tablet, and it is expected that the bronze will be finished very shortly. The committee in charge of the project is composed of Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99. M. Donald '99, H. S. Thompson '99, H. James, 2d, '99, L. K. Lunt...