SENIORS ABANDON PLANS FOR WAR MEMORIAL GATE

Plans for the erection of a memorial gate by the class of 1920 have been given up, according to an announcement made last night by the committee in charge. The statement of the committee is as follows:

"The Class of 1920 had considered erecting a gate as a memorial to those of its members who lost their lives in the European war. Last spring it was thought that the general Harvard Memorial would not get under way for several years, in which case subscriptions for the two memorials would not have been conflicting. As a matter of fact, the big memorial is now under way, and it would be a mistake to detract any subscriptions at all from it.

"The memorial which was planned would have cost in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars, according to estimates by the contractors, and this sum would not only have been a great strain on our class, but would also have subtracted a large amount from the many demands for funds which are now being made.

"For these reasons the committee has deemed it advisable to abandon the idea for a separate 1920 memorial in the form of a gate of anything else."

The Memorial Gate was to have been situated on the left of President Lowell's house, so that it would have balanced the Dudley Gate on the Opposite side.

Fourteen men of the class of 1920 save their lives in the war and three were decorated for bravery in the field. The men who were thus honored were A. E. Angier, F. R. Austin, and D. E. Putnam.