Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...terms in the Corporation, the last of which closed in 1890; and because the Corporation of that day knew no better example of the public spirit and courage which had made New England what it then was. The expectations and purposes with which the Corporation of 1893 elected Major Higginson a member of the Board were completely fulfilled...
What Major Higginson did for the social and athletic aspects of College life is so prominently before us in such concrete forms as the Harvard Union and Soldiers Field, that we often overlook the great influence exerted by his foresight and generosity in the development of music--that art which, although it appeals so elementally to all human beings, is often difficult to estimate, just because it is so elusive and mysterious...
...facts are that, through the generosity and artistic judgment of Major Higginson over a course of more than 50 years, America has been enabled to have one of the leading orchestras in the whole world. Competent critics from the Continent have often considered it to be the finest; undoubtedly there is no finer...
...have generated a love for good music in the lives of innumerable alumni and undergraduates. There is little doubt that music is going to bear an increasingly more and more important part in bringing together all classes of our mixed community in bonds of mutual sympathy and toleration; Major Higginson will always bear an immortal crown for having been a pioneer in its development...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Fellow of the Corporation, donor of Soldiers Field and the Union, and throughout his long and useful life friend and benefactor of the University, died on Friday night at 9 o'clock...