Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last but not least the characteristic likeness of Maj. H. L. Higginson '55, is most fittingly given frontispiece honors. The explanatory, illustrated introduction of the Major is thrice welcome just at the present time. Classes which have gone before know him; the three upper classes know him and 1921 may take the Illustrated's picture of him as a war time introduction...
...close of a meeting yesterday of Major Henry Lee Higginson, Cardinal O'Connell, and Alfred L. Aiken, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, Cardinal O'Connell issued a statement of which the following is an extract: "The times are extraordinary and call for extraordinary methods. Our soldiers and sailors will need everything we can do for them and it would be a crime for anyone of us to be indifferent to the tremendous consequences which would result to this country in the unthinkable event of our failure to do our full duty at this critical time...
Major Henry Lee Higginson, Hon. A.M. '82, President of the Union, and for many years identified with the University in different ways, is serving in this war by helping in the campaign for subscriptions to the Second Liberty Loan. Being a veteran of the Civil War he realizes what war means, and hence how necessary it is to raise a huge sum to carry on the work. He writes...
...Nobody can talk about the sacrifice in these times of men who are doing their duty," was the chief point which Major Higginson emphasized. "There's nothing like doing something for other people--and your country represents a lot of other people. You are here to learn to serve in something perhaps harder than war." He went on to speak of the responsibilities placed on the younger men by the loss of so many lives in the war, saying that "Hundreds of thousands of men must be replaced and horrible destruction made good. When peace comes--like a thief...
...Major Higginson concluded his speech by speaking of opportunities for service and the obligations all citizens have towards the country, especially in time of war when every one's duty is to learn to be of some good...