David Quinn, 24, a first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was killed on an island in the Pacific in 1943 during a bloody battle with the Japanese.
His family was told his body was lost at sea, but many years later his nephew came across a letter to Quinn's widow from a fellow Marine saying that Quinn's body had been buried on a beach underneath a white cross.
The outgoing president of Harvard University has formed a committee of four professors and three administrators to study the events that led to the forcible arrest of a naked Harvard College undergraduate under the influence of drugs in the median of Massachusetts Avenue.
"This work must start with a focus on how the changing nature of our student body should influence the ways in which we address issues of College policy, mental health resources, and community policing," Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard, wrote in an email message to students on Monday, according to The Harvard Crimson.
