Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...placing of the names of the University men who died in the war in the rooms which they last occupied while at College is the fourth of the series of plans for a University War Memorial. The three previous suggestions, which have been published in the CRIMSON, for a new gymnasium, for a monument in the proposed park on the south bank of the Charles River, and for a large auditorium are projects which would require a great deal of time and money to put into execution, while the tablets in the College dormitories would cost much less, and would...
...plan involves several details of execution which have not yet been settled. In the first place, there is a question of what men should have their names inscribed. It is still undecided whether all former members of the University who gave their lives in the war should be included, or whether only those who reached France or died in action should be honored...
...Memorial Society, in conjunction with the War Records Office, has almost finished compiling the military records of the University men killed. These are being posted in the Roll of Honor in the Widener Library as fast as they are completed. Three columns of the roll are now in order, and the rest are being revised and will be ready by Memorial...
Four large screens which will contain the photographs of the Harvard dead are also being prepared by the Memorial Society. It has been possible to obtain likenesses of a very large proportion of those who died in the war, and these have all been reduced to standard size. The screens will be completed...
Four thousand, nine hundred and twenty men of American universities have given their lives in the great war, of whom, the University, with 297, or nearly three per cent, of the teachers, graduates, and former and present students who took an active part in the great struggle, has lost a larger number than any other institution. The figures, which have just been compiled, are not complete, as men are still dying of wounds suffered or diseases contracted during the war. It is safe to say that the whole number of those who have been killed will be close...