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...Cercle Francais, of which Y. H. Buhler is president, will direct the collection of contributions toward the $250,000 fund to be raised during the first five days of this week. The name of this University will appear in the Memorial Book as one of the organizations making the gift possible...
...drive for subscriptions to "America's Gift to France" will be inaugurated in the University today. This gift will take the form of a colossal statue which will show the spirit of Liberty as a woman struggling with undaunted courage against her enemies. Around the central figure will be grouped others representing the defensive strength afforded by the Allies of France. Models for this statue are now being designed by Frederick MacMonnies, the distinguished sculptor who, during the war, transformed his studio into a hospital for wounded French soldiers...
This memorial gift from America has already received the highest official sanction of the French government and will be placed in a position overlooking the Marne near the vilage of Meaux where the first German advance was stopped less than 20 miles from Paris on September...
...Macmonnies Memorial, which is to be set up on the banks of the Marne in France, in commemoration of the American troops who gave their lives in the World War. The drive in the University will begin Monday, and last three days. As in the case of the French gift of the Statue of Liberty, when the donors were very numerous and representative, everybody is urged to contribute, even as small an amount as 10 cents being gratefully received. The Memorial, to cost in the neighborhood of $300,000, will be very impressively situated on one of the historical heights...
These prizes are made possible by the gift to the University of $1,000 by Ward Nichols Boylston of Boston in 1817, with the "wish to promote the reputation of Harvard College, and more especially with a view to advance the objects for which the Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory was Founded...