Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tablet erected in the New Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died during the World War fighting on the side of the Central Powers was moved again yesterday to a more conspicuous place on the east wall of the Church proper. The new position is almost opposite the main entrance to the Church and is in plain sight of all in the Church...
...tablet set up in the new Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died fighting for the Central Powers during the World War was moved yesterday to a more conspicuous place in the Church proper. It was removed from a position under the stairway on the northwest side, where it was temporarily placed last week, to a spot on the west side of the north wall of the Church proper...
...Alumni Committee has attempted to make any real public defense of the decision to exclude the names. And few who disliked this decision have formulated the grounds for their stand with any clarity. Those who are now behind the plans to place in the Memorial Church a special tablet in honor of the Harvard men who died on the German side have carefully avoided making any public statement of their motives. Their silence vitiates the whole plan. If the placing of a memorial to the Germans is to mean much, there must be a definite conception in the University...
...obscure corner of the Memorial Church there hangs today a cardboard plaque incribed with three names, a replica of the tablet which is soon to be placed there in memory of those who died in the Great War fighting for the German cause. The effort and financial support which have made the memorial possible are the contributions of a few individuals to a cause which they regard as just...
Last year in its editorial columns the CRIMSON expressed the opinion that the German names should be included in a memorial tablet dedicated to all Harvard's World War dead, and that the Corporation was unjustified in interpreting the unexpressed opinion of the donors so as to exclude them. Despite an apparent futility, the CRIMSON wishes to reiterate that stand, and to maintain further, in view of subsequent events, that a courageous expression of opinion would have reflected far more honor upon the Corporation than a policy which has sought, by its timid half-steps, to appease or to delude...