WILL ERECT A MEMORIAL TO HERO OF REVOLUTION

Washington, May 19--A statue of George Artemas Ward of the class of 1748, Revolutionary War hero, is to be erected in Washington by the University out of a $4,000,000 fund established by a great grandson of the same name, it was announced here today.

The president and fellows of Harvard, to carry out the wish of General Ward's great-grandson, deemed it appropriate that the statue should be erected in the national capital because General Ward was the first to command the Revolutionary Army. The statue will be placed in a new circle at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues. Its design has been approved by the Fine Arts Commission and erection of the memorial will begin soon.

Memorials Already Erected

Although General Ward was the first to command the Revolutionary forces, he later became second in command to George Washington. He also served in the Continental Congress and in two of the earlier Federal Congresses. Memorials in his honor have already been erected in Cambridge and in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died.

The exact nature of the design could not be learned last night, but it is believed that it was executed under the direction of Harvard authorities.