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UNIVERSITY HONORS WAR DEAD TOMORROW, GENERAL PERSHING ADDRESSES LEGION POSTS

EXCERCISES IN SANDERS AT 4

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The University will tomorrow afternoon formally honor the memory of her war dead, especially the former members of the Harvard Regiment and its sometime commander, Lieutenant-Colonel James Andrew Shannon.

The exercises at Sanders Theatre at which General Pershing will speak will be held at 4 P. M. Places will be reserved until 3.45 for such ticket holders as do not take part in the procession.

Promptly at 3 P. M. the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Faculties, some 450 former members of the Harvard Regiment, 50 members of the James A. Shannon Post of the Legion, and delegations from Cambridge Post No. 27, the Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, and the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R. will assemble in front of Widener Library with the Harvard University Band playing under the portico.

Enter Yard by Johnston Gate,

Shortly after 3 o'clock General Pershing, President Lowell, Governor Coolidge, the French and Italian Military Attaches, and the representative of the British Military Attache, with their respective aides, will enter the Harvard Yard by the Johnston Gate with automobiles, escorted by a mounted guard of some forty men from the present Harvard Field Artillery Unit, and will drive up to the steps of Widener Library where the members of the Harvard Regiment and the other groups will be drawn up to await them. General Pershing and his party will enter the Library to view the photographs of the Harvard men who gave their lives in the war, and as they come out again, a battery of the Field Artillery Unit will fire a military salute.

The procession will then form in front of Widener with the Harvard University Band leading and proceed to Sanders Theatre. At the theatre, in addition to Gerneral Pershing's address, the Glee Club will sing, Bishop Lawrence will offer prayer, and Governor Coolidge will extend the greetings of the Commonwealth. The Harvard Yard will be closed from 1 until after 4 and only those who hold tickets will be admitted. Some 3000 tickets have been given out.

Committee Issues Directions...

The following directions have been issued by the Memorial Day Committee:

"Those members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Faculties who wish to take part in the procession, together with the Harvard Regiment, the James A. Shannon Post, the Cambridge Post No. 27, the Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R., and such other members of the University as have been assigned tickets to Sanders theatre, are asked to assemble promptly at 3 P. M. in front of Widener Library to take part in the preliminary exercises and then go in procession to Sanders Theatre.

"All other holders of Sanders Theatre tickets, including relatives of men who gave their lives in the war and relatives of members of the Faculties are asked to be in Sanders Theatre before 8.45. Places will be reserved for them until 8.45. The exercises at the Theatre will begin at 4. Admission to Sanders Theatre and to the Harvard Yard will be by ticket only, for those in the procession as well as for others.

"The members of the Faculties are requested by the Memorial Day Committee to wear uniform or academic costume, and all others are requested to wear uniform if they can possibly arrange to do so."

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