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...drive for funds was started at a dinner held last Monday evening for the collecting committees. A Beane '11, the graduate secretary, who has guided and developed the activities of Phillips Brooks House so successfully, spoke on its ideals and the splendid opportunity for new service in connection with the S. A. T. C. and Naval Unit...
...Just as the spirits of their dead heroes watching over them urged on the French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne to hurl back the invading hordes, so must the spirits of our glorious heroes who faced a splendid and cruel death unflinchingly, lead us to consecrate our all for the Allied Cause," said Lieutenant Morize in his Memorial Day address in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon. The exercises, which were under the auspices of the University Memorial Society, and over which Major Henry L. Higginson '55 presided, centered about the presentation by the Society of a tablet containing...
...personal; it is our very own. The lists have been growing and growing until the number of Harvard men who have given their lives has swelled to eighty. And thus we find that Memorial Day has a meaning for us after all, that its purpose is a splendid one, that we welcome this occasion to hold corporate honor for all our brave defenders, but especially those who have gone forth to meet Germans...
Those who went to Sanders Theatre yesterday and attended the exercises of the Memorial Society can appreciate this feeling. Those who heard Lieutenant Morize deliver an address filled with sympathy, high praise for our fallen, and splendid advice for ourselves, came away better Americans. It was a meeting of serious citizens, paying the only tribute they could to our new heroes, not in any careless, foregranted spirit but with full heart and devotion. No, Memorial Day has not lost its purpose for us. It is about to become a day with more meaning than all our other national days...
...evening. The speakers were G. C. Barclay '19, President, and F. E. Parker, Jr., '18, ex-President, of the CRIMSON, Dean Yeomans, Professor Copeland and Meeker's father, Mr. Henry E. Meeker '89. All spoke of the young man's brilliant career in college, his great promise, and his splendid death...