Word: higgenson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After searching for five years, they found a gold mine in Major Henry Lee Higgenson, whose portrait now hangs at the left of the dining hall entrance. With his gift of $150,000 the "experiment in democracy," as he called it, went up in a year. Completed in 1902, the building was garnished with momentous of the recent Spanish war, including a "rapid-firing" cannon from the cruiser Harvard. This now stands in the basement, aimed threateningly at the entrance to the office of Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...
...Navy took over, and later the Summer School. Finally, it served as the headquarters of the 25th Reunion Class during Commencement. And those who see in each new use a break with hallowed tradition, might lay down their critical pens and remember the words of founder Higgenson at the Union's opening ceremonies...
Called the "1952 Civil Liberties Appeal," the letter was signed by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higgenson Professor of History; Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higgenson Professor of History, and Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law signed the "1952 Civil Liberties Appeal" to finance opposition to what they termed "the greatest menace the American liberal tradition has faced in our lifetime...