THE MEMORIAL SOCIETY'S WORK

The Harvard Memorial Society's announcement of plans for its Memorial Day Service will remind undergraduates of the existence and activities of a comparatively unknown college institution. Year in and year out the Memorial Society continues its quiet work. It publishes the University Guide, places tablets on historic buildings, and lists of former tenants in all the older rooms about the Yard. It collects detailed records of Harvard men who have died in the nation's service, and will exhibit within a few months a full series of their pictures on semi-permanent oaken panels in the Library. Every year on Memorial Day it keeps alive by a service in Sanders Theatre the memory of all Harvard men who have died in the nation's war.

Surely the work of the society merits the college's support. It strives to keep alive that most cohesive of all realities at the University--Harvard's unbroken and untarnished tradition of liberal learning, which has grown and broadened steadily since 1636, thirteen years, before King Charles I of England lost his head at Whitehall.

It is not necessary to point out to the men in college that the services will this year have particular reference to those men who will never come back from France nor must the undergraduates be urged to attend in order to once more pay homage to their memory.