Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Judge Cabot, the next speaker, emphasized the Major's recognition of the value of friendship and the value of music in inspiring sentiments as noble as that of friendship. "Mr. Higginson gave Solidiers Field. It symbolized the love of friends. It was in memory of the friends of his, youth, his comrades who died in the war when he and they staked their lives in the great cause. And then, years later, he gave this building (the Union), symbolizing the love of friendship...
...conclusion, President Lowell read parts of letters from Major Higginson, and ended with the tribute: "As he said in a letter that I have just quoted, the dead die that a new generation may come along and put its ideas into force, and in time they will pass and another generation come along...
...world would not be worth living in if one did not believe that there are as good men in the world as those who are gone and that those who are yet to be born will be not less good. But nevertheless we shall never see Henry Lee Higginson again...
...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...
...service, which was conducted by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, was marked by its brevity and the absence of an elaborate ritual. About 12.30 o'clock the coffin was carried by the nephews of the late Major Higginson as far as the door of the chapel, where their places were taken by the undergraduate pallbearers, R. W. Emmons, 2nd. '20, H. S. Walker '20, F. Workum '20, J. N. Borland '21. W. Davis '21, and C. C. Buell...