On the second floor of Pershing Hall immediately to the right of the elevator in an alcove. Plaque A large plaque commemorating the sacrifice of Yale graduates who served in WWI.

1914                  1918

TO HONOR THE

TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN

MEN OF YALE UNIVERSITY WHO

GAVE THEIR LIVES IN SERVICE OF

THE NATION IN THE WORLD WAR

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SHALL NOT EARTH LIVE THE FAIRER

FOR THEIR SAKE WHO ARE DEAD-

NOT ASHES- NOR ANY SORROW

BE BORNE FOR SUCH AS THEY-

GIVE THEM THE GOLDEN MORROW

THEY DWELT IN YESTERDAY

SEEING OUR DAYS INHERIT

WHAT JOYS THEY DARED FOREGO

SURELY THEY SEE AND SHARE IT

SURELY THEY KNOW- THEY KNOW

COMMEMORATIVE-POEM

AD MCMXIX GEORGE H SNOWDEN

FECIT- MCMXXXIII