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...Memorial Day, May 30, exercises will be held in the Living Room of the Union, at the unveiling of a bronze memorial tablet, designed and executed by the sculptor, Bela Pratt, in commemoration of the Harvard men who died in service in the Spanish War. The tablet will be placed directly over the central door of the Living Room and will take the place of the temporary decoration there at present. In form it will some-what resemble it, being a bronze eagle in relief, with the names of the men who died inscribed under its wings, and a motto...
Petrified by the fear of the ambulances at the rink, even the glory of being inscribed on a tablet in the Lampoon banquet hall could not induce the Ibis's chicks to face the dauntless and destructive CRIMSON seven yesterday afternoon...
...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...
...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...