[Husker] Memorial Stadium inscriptions

[Steve Reichenbach]

> Hi all,
> 
> I was hoping someone on the list could clarify a discrepancy I've 
> found regarding inscriptions on Memorial Stadium.  A University site 
> <http://historicbuildings.unl.edu/building.php?b=38> provides the 
> following text:
> 
>    Inscribed on the four corners of the stadium are the following
>    words, written by former UNL professor of philosophy Hartley Burr
>    Alexander:
> 
>    Southeast: "In Commendation of the men of Nebraska who served and
>    fell in the Nations Wars."
> 

I can respond to this one, as I can see it from my office.

>    Southwest: "Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the
>    game; In the deed the glory."
> 
>    Northwest: "Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the
>    true awards of manly sport."
> 
>    Northeast: "Their Lives they held their countrys trust; They kept
>    its faith; They died its heroes."
> 
> Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Stadium,_Lincoln> 
> has the same verbiage, with three exceptions:
> 
>   1) in the first bullet it uses "Commemoration" rather than
>      "Commendation";
> 
Commemoration.

>   2) also in the first bullet, it uses an apostrophe in "Nations"
>      (i.e., presenting it as "Nation's").
> 
No apostrophe is visible to me.  Also, as a point of information,
every letter is capitalized.  

>   3) in the fourth bullet, it uses an apostrophe in "countrys" (so it
>      is "country's")
> 
> Normally I would discount Wikipedia as less reliable and go with 
> what appears to be an official University source, but the usage of 
> the apostrophes troubles me just a bit.
> 
> I need this resolved so I can insert the text under the glass of the 
> poster my wife recently gave me that is hanging in my office--the 
> newest Big Ten stadium.
> 
> What say the esteemed members of this list?