Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last year, Memorial Day was swiftly on the road to becoming a holiday and no more--a day of freedom from routine without special meaning. For the younger generation's interest in the Civil War is historical rather than personal and our honor for the dead who gave up their lives in that struggle was so taken for granted that each year saw less and less deep feeling within us. We honored those heroes of '61, but we did it subconsciously and with little appreciation of the hell they had been through...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside at the exercises, and Lieutenant Morize will be the chief speaker. Officers, graduates and undergraduates of the University as well as University veterans of the Civil War will gather in front of University Hall at 12 o'clock, while the R. O. T. C. will form in front of Hollis and Stoughton Halls. On the arrival of the Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., the procession will start towards Sanders Theatre, escorted by the University...
This year Memorial Day will take on a new significance. It used to be the day consecrated only to those who died in the Civil War. From now on it will be even more a day on which we shall commemorate the sacrifice of our countrymen's lives in the Great War. We take pride in our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fell on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, and on each May 30 we are newly thrilled by the memory of those men who fought for Union and Democracy between 1861 and 1865. The pride and the thrill...
...Harvard dead who will always be remembered. This list of seventy names will grow steadily and more and more rapidly. Fifty years from now our sons will tell their sons that on May 30 the United States pays tribute to the men who fought for their country in the Civil War and for the world in the Great...
...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...