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South College Barracks Fire of 1924
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Cadets Jefferson Bryant Meharg and Lawrence Christopher Olsen lost their lives in the burning of college barracks on March 17, 1924. Erected by the Cadet Corps of 1923-1924, this remembrance honors their deaths and bears the words, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
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