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Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...tablet erected in the New Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died during the World War fighting on the side of the Central Powers was moved again yesterday to a more conspicuous place on the east wall of the Church proper. The new position is almost opposite the main entrance to the Church and is in plain sight of all in the Church...
...When the tablet was first set up in a spot under the northwest stairway it was decided to try several positions in an effort to find the most appropriate one. Later it was placed on the west side of the north wall in the main body of the Church...
...tablet set up in the new Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died fighting for the Central Powers during the World War was moved yesterday to a more conspicuous place in the Church proper. It was removed from a position under the stairway on the northwest side, where it was temporarily placed last week, to a spot on the west side of the north wall of the Church proper...
...Alumni Committee has attempted to make any real public defense of the decision to exclude the names. And few who disliked this decision have formulated the grounds for their stand with any clarity. Those who are now behind the plans to place in the Memorial Church a special tablet in honor of the Harvard men who died on the German side have carefully avoided making any public statement of their motives. Their silence vitiates the whole plan. If the placing of a memorial to the Germans is to mean much, there must be a definite conception in the University...