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...Andover Theological and the University Divinity Schools are to dedicate a memorial tablet for Merrill Stanton Gaunt at the Andover Seminary Building on Francis Avenue next Tuesday at 3.30 o'clock. Gaunt received his degree from the Andover school in February of 1916, and immediately sailed for France to enter the American Ambulance Service. After a few weeks in this work he contracted spinal meningitis and died...
...that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more, and if by chance the list includes the name of some famed man the room brings a ridiculous rental from a rich student...
...Farnsworth, a graduate of the University in 1912, who met death last year in the Foreign Legion. This is the first time that Harvard has honored individually any one of her sons who have lost their lives in the war. The Farnsworth Room will take its place with the tablet in the Union, Memorial Hall, and Soldiers Field, tributes to the heroism of Harvard graduates...
...days ago I saw in the paper a letter from a graduate suggesting a bronze tablet in Soldiers Field in memory of Norman Prince '08. It occurred to me that the fact might not be generally known that the oak panels in the wainscoating of the Hall of the Union were intended for just such a purpose. I happened to be present when the architect, Mr. C. F. McKim, was discussing his plans for the Union with Mr. Higginson and others, and he said then that he hoped that the plain panels would genually be replaced by carved once inscribed...
...suggest that the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard unite in raising a fund to erect a tablet to his memory, and no more fitting spot to place it could be found than Soldiers Field, because I am sure the donor of the field would feel that it was a fitting place for a memorial to a man who was worthy to rank with his own friends of the Civil...