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THE MEMORIAL TABLETS.

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The CRIMSON has no desire to be drawn into the controversy over the tablets in Memorial Hall. It was mentioned in this column because the subject is one of interest to all Harvard men. We realize of course that when Memorial Hall was built, it was only to commemorate, as its dedicatory tablet states, the service of Harvard men to the Union cause. But the memorial movement was started in the year that the war closed, and the building was finished in 1874. Since that time thee sectional bitterness has largely passed away; the animating motives of both sides are appreciated at their true value. Perhaps Memorial Hall is not the most appropriate place to erect a memorial to Harvard men who died in the Confederate service, but they should have a memorial of some sort in the University premises for they deserve our admiration.

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