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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Somewhere in the still remembered past the men of Harvard marched out into the battlefields that were to decide if the Nation were to exist as the founders of our government had planned. Some marched out wearing the northern blue, while others in southern gray followed the call of "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag." Today Harvard stands by right of foundation the first university of the New World and a College recognized by both northern and southern elements in America.

We have not forgotten those who left home or college to fight the battle of our Nation, for they left us much to remember. In Memorial Hall there stand the silent names of those who followed the greater call and gave up their lives that the cause which they considered right should succeed.

Today the past is behind us and the name of Harvard stands as the symbol of the United youth of the north and south. In the union--a name happy in the significance of what it suggests--we may find the north and the south represented in the bonds of good fellowship. Why not make the union recognized? In Harvard University we may see no portrait of that soldier and statesman, Robert Lee, who fought under the flag of the Southern Confederacy, and the face of Abraham Lincoln, the preserver of the union of the North and South, is equally unfamiliar to us. Let us hang the portraits of those two Americans upon the walls of the Harvard Union where we may see and be reminded of those two men who gave their all that the cause which they deemed right should prosper.  1908.