Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...funeral services of Major Higginson yesterday noon Appleton Chapel was filled to overflowing with friends who had come to do homage to Harvard's great benefactor. In addition to President Lowell and the Board of Overseers, who acted as honorary pallbearers, the University was represented by over a thousand students, who assembled in a double line outside of the chapel...
...Major Henry L. Higginson the University has lost a councillor and benefactor, the students a friend. Ever mindful of their welfare he gave them the Union and Soldiers' Field. Outside the University he created, and for years at his own expense maintained, the Symphony Orchestra. Without holding public office he was always quick to serve the public and unsparing in his denunciation of public wrong. Many will feel that a friend has gone from us, for he was much loved, because he loved much...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Fellow of the Corporation, donor of Soldiers Field and the Union, and throughout his long and useful life friend and benefactor of the University, died on Friday night at 9 o'clock...
...first engineering school in the University was founded in 1847, when the Corporation and Board of Overseers instituted a school of applied science and named it the Lawrence Scientific school, in honor of Abbott Lawrence, its first benefactor. About sixty years later, when income became available from the fund bequeathed by Gordon McKay for the development of applied sciences in all its phases, particularly engineering, the scope of this work was enlarged, and the Graduate Schools of Applied Science were established, including the School of Engineering and the Mining School. These schools took over and developed the advanced professional...
...Newport and in Rhode Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most generous benefactor. Hilast days were spent in editing a catalogue of his collections of angling bookplates which have been on exhibition at the Grolier Club...