Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roll of Honor presented to the University on Memorial Day contained the names only of those sons of Harvard whose deaths befell them in the service of the Allies and the United States in the war against Germany. An impression to the contrary was due to the fact that a newspaper, in an advance account of the Memorial Day ceremonies, reprinted from the Bulletin an earlier, unofficial list of all the Harvard men, including Germans, who have fallen in the war, without informing itself about the names actually appearing on the panel accepted by the University...
...recognition, not intended to stand as the University's permanent tribute to its fallen sons. From London a correspondent of the Bulletin has recently written: "At University College yesterday I saw one side of the corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks for the photograph. All are framed alike. This is a suggestion. Perhaps Harvard has a better scheme." The Roll of Honor recently set up is not a better, but merely another scheme; and one does not exclude...
Before referring the matter, the Committee discussed the question and considered the recommendations of the Student Council that a war-time "H" of slightly smaller size be given to all members of major and minor teams who should be considered eligible for insignia by the Council. Dean Briggs, Dean Yeomans, Captain F. J. Moore '93, C. H. Pennypacker '88, of the Boston Latin School, and A. F. Tribble '19, the five members present, decided that no decision could now be made, as Tribble was the only undergraduate member attending. The men in whose hands the question of giving insignia...
...Honorable Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President of the United States, in the Daily Princetonian, has stated his views upon the relation of the student body to the war and to the nation. The Vice-President is strong in his belief that college men should continue their academic work...
Speaking on the relation of the student body to the war Vice-President Marshall said: "My views are quite clear upon this subject. I was heartily in favor of Conscription, in order to enable the Government to select those persons who could best be spared from civil life and who could best discharge military duty. I still believe in the principle...