An act of shameful desecration has recently come to our notice. It seems that a number of the flags placed in the transept of Memorial Hall on Decoration Day have been taken from the tablets. It is hard to believe that anyone could have so little respect for the honored dead as to commit such an act; but that a Harvard man should steal from the hall, erected in honor of the brave sons of Harvard who fell in the war for the Union, the emblems which were there left as a token of respect for their grand sacrifice, seems incredible. But such is the case. The act may have been done thoughtlessly, and doubtless was, in the zeal to obtain trophies for the walls of the students' rooms; but thoughtlessness when carried to such extremes is no longer excusable. The names of three students, in whose possession these flags have been seen, are known to the authorities, and will be made public unless the flags are returned to the Grand Army Post before Friday morning. They can be left at janitors' rooms of Stoughton, Thayer or Weld.
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