Without any heralded ceremony the canvas hanging by the Widener room in the Library was drawn back and the pictures beneath unveiled,--John Sargent's tribute to the Harvard war dead.
Until now the University has taken no official action towards erecting a fitting memorial to its alumni who fell in the war. There have been many suggestions; but the only war memorials to Harvard men at present established, are from individuals, the Victor Chapman and the Fiske Fellowships, the Webster scholarship, and the Farnsworth Room. The Sargent paintings, placed where Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, are passing by hundreds every day, stand as a constant and striking reminder of how much the University's living owe to the sacrifices of its dead.
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