The times., 1901-05-26
HARVARD'S SOLDIER DEAD
Two Memorials to Those Who Fell
During the Civil War.
"A Great Building in the Transept of
Which Are Inscribed the Names of
Those Who Wore the BIue-The
Monument on the Playground.

Monument on the playground.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 25.-Memo-
rial Day in Cambridge centres always
around memorial Hail. the great building,
completed in 1878. which was erected to
the memory of those sons of Harvard
who fought in the ranks Of the Union
The impression which the transept-where
the names OF those who died in battle are
inscribed-has made even on strangers
is Illustrated in page of Mrs. Humphrey
Wards latest novel, Eleanor" con-
versation carried on in sight of the dome
of st. Peters in Rome calls up to one Of
the speakers the recollection of this same
transept, covered with the names of the
dead. here in Cambridge. THAT WALL
he says, those names. that youth. and
death-they remain with me as the SYM
bol Of the other great majesty in the
world. There's one, that's religion. And
the others country
The number of names is 1861 from
the college, II from the Medical School. 13
from the Law School, from the Scientific
School, from the Divinity School. and 1
from the Astronomical Observatory.
The chief inscriptions in the transept
are well worth repeating, as a part of the
finest testimony which New England has
to show to the memory OF the heroes of
the civil war. The first. in translation
from the Latin in which it is written, is
as follows:
This Hau
Commentaries the Patriotism
OF the Graduates and Students Of This University
Who Served IN the Army and Navy Of the
United States During the War for the Pres
ervatiOn OF the Union,
And Upon These Tablets
Are Inscribed the Names Of Those Among Them
Who Died in That Service
The second:
In Memory of
The Men Trained Here
Who
Gave Their Lives for Their Country
This Han Is Built
By Their Classmates and Friends
To the End That Ensanples of Manhood
Be Ever in Honor Among You
While the third, in the Latin of Cicero,
has been rendered thus:
This is the best comfort unto their parents.
that they have forgotten such strong defences
of the Republic. unto their children that they
shall have Of their kindred examples of
manhood, unto their wives that they shall be
widows Of husbands filter for eulogy than for
weeds
The windows of the transept are SYM
bolic of the same high sacrifice of life.
Here is translation in a panel in the
north window:
Greeting. whoe'er thou art Thou see'st the
names of the men OF Harvard who in ardent
youth or manhoods ripsr resolution laid
down their lives that the Republic might
live Pattern thy life by the principles they
maintained in death, to make men freer,
happier and more united
Memorial Hall. however. is not the only
reminder that Harvard did not shrink
from her duty in the great war between
the States. Across the Charles River
lies the playground of the university.
known as Soldiers Field \ monument
near the entrance tells by its inscription
the meaning of the name:
To the
Happy Memory OF
JAMES SAVAGE
CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL,
EDWARD BARRY DALTON.
STEPHEN GEORGE PERKINS,
JAMES JACKSON LOWELL.
ROBERT GOULD SHAW,
Friends Comrades. kinsmen
Who Died for Their Country,
This Field Is Dedicated by
HENRY LEE HIGGINSoN.
Below is inscribed Emersou's beautiful
quatrain, which one finds in the editions OF
his poems under the title of sacrifice,
as follows;
Though love repine and reason cb1ie,
There came a voice without rsaly-
It's man ; perdiJion TO be safe
When for the truth he ought 70 die
It is by this shaft; placed near a beauti-
full elm that the student passes on his
way to the sports which occupy SO much
of his attention. but which, It was the
hope OF the giver Of the field might BY
this dedication be forever associated IN his
mind with service to the State.