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battle, not yours is the splendor of sacrifice of life and love for a great cause, but it is yours to serve faithfully, if with less glory, under the flag of honor,- of honesty, of purity, of self-forgetfulness, of devotion to duty. That is the perpetual flag of Harvard. See that you hold it up steadily, always in advance, and pass it on with its colors bright to those who shall receive it at your hands. Thus shall you become worthy companions of those whom we honor today.

"In the 'Harvard Memorial Biographies' the story of the generous lives of our fellows dead in the war is told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which was common to our Harvard soldiers.

" 'I, Peter Augustus Porter, being of sound mind, do declare this to be my last will and testament, feeling to its full extent the probability that I may not return from the path of duty on which I have entered. If it please God that it be so, I can say, with truth, that I have entered on the course of danger with no ambitio us aspirations, nor with the idea that I am fitted, by nature or experience, to be of any important service to the government; but in obedience to the call of duty demanding of every citizen to contribute what he can in means, labor or life, to sustain the government of the country,- a sacrifice made the more willingly by me when I consider how singularly benefitted I have been by the constitutions of the land, and that up to this time all the blessings of life have been showered upon me beyond what usually falls to the lot of man.' "

After Professor Norton had read parts of the Commemoration Ode, the services were closed by the Glee Club's singing a few verses of the hymn often sung at the funerals of fallen soldiers, "Integer Vitae."