Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University will tomorrow do homage to its honored dead. This year's celebration of Memorial Day will again be held under the auspices of the Memorial Society, and every effort is being made to have the ceremony commensurate with the first Memorial Day after the Great War. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside at the exercises, which will be held in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 o'clock in the morning. Addresses will be made by ex-Governor Augustus E. Willson '69, of Louisville, Ky., and the Reverend Albert Parker Fitch '00. Professor Jefferson B. Fletcher '87, of New York...
...very glad to hear that your class is contemplating the creation of a gate to the College Yard in memory of the men of your class who fell in the war. Bit by bit the Yard is being beautified but much remains to be done, and I can think of no more fitting nor permanent memorial, of a modest but apt sort than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead...
After tree months of careful preparation by the 1919 Photography Committee, the Senior Album is now on the press, and will be one sale by Class Day. It contains 220 pages, 691 individual picture, and detailed "lives"--including war records of every member of the Senior class. The book is dedicated to the twenty men of 1919 who gave their lives in the war, and contains a special memorial section devoted especially to the photographs and military history of these men. There are also 64 group pictures of teams, boards, and activities, with appropriate articles...
Aside from diplomatic circles, the field that lends itself best to the establishing of friendly international relations is probably the field of education. Exchange professors between the leading universities started international educational association many years ago, and nor plans are emerging from the great melting pot of war to follow up the initial advances...
...past and particularly during the war, Phillips Brooks House has fulfilled one of the primary purposes for which it was founded--hospitality. Its doors are always open to members of the University and their guests; and hundreds of men in the military and naval service of their country can testify to the welcome accorded them in the past two cars. It has been true in the past that many of those men active in the affairs of the Association have seen little or nothing of the House itself. Tonight the serious aspects of work are to be left behind...