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...annual Memorial Day service, at which Dr. Justin Winsor will preside, is to be held on Sunday, May 30th, at 4 o'clock. Major H. L. Higginson will make the address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts infantry. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor...
Major Higginson served under Colonel Shaw in the 54th regiment and was his close friend, so the address is sure to be in the highest degree interesting and instructive...
...second week will be a brilliant one, as this beautiful artist will appear in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Leah, the Forsaken." She will be supported by nearly the same company as when she was here last, headed by John E. Kellerd and Louis Massen. Miss Burroughs' engagement closes the 54th regular season of the theatre, and promises to be highly successful...
...site of his home is still known in Charlestown, although the building itself was destroyed in the firing of Charlestown during the battle of Bunker Hill. He was about thirty years of age when he died, and he left property in England. The date of his death is the 54th day of September, 1638. Although he left one-half of his estate to the college, the University only received one-half of the bequest, with the library. This library consisted of 302 volumes on various subjects and showed the taste and education of its owner, but in 1764 a large...