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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many decades the University has benefited from the unfailing and stimulating interest of Major Higginson. His gifts have been incessant, without price--all of them unassuming. The two of which undergraduates are most conscious are monumental: Soldiers Field and the Union. Both of these were given in memory of friends and comrades who gave their lives for our country, and endowed for the purpose of moulding young men in the frame of these same worthy heroes...
...Reverend Dr. Charles R. Brown of Yale will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel from November 17 to November 20, inclusive, at 8.45 o'clock. The Reverend Norman B. Nash, Assistant Professor of the New Testament at the Episcopal Theological School, and lately Chaplain of the 150th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Force, will conduct prayers on November 21 and 22. The services will close promptly at 9 o'clock to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...
...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...
...because he was a successful banker and broker of State Street. Far from it. He was chosen because he was as fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship...
...clock today the University soccer team meets the University of Pennsylvania players on Soldiers Field. The Pennsylvania team has already won six games and lost one, having defeated Yale and Princeton by scores of 4-0 and 5-1 respectively. The University team has won two, tied one and lost one game...