Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates and graduate students will assemble in front of the North Entry of University Hall at 12.15 today to assist in the funeral procession of Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. Members of the various classes will report to their respective marshals at that time. They will then be assigned to positions in the double line reaching from Appleton Chapel to the front of University Hall, through which the bier will pass on its way to Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
...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...
Such ideals, lived as well as spoken, caused graduates to consider Henry Lee Higginson the living embodiment of the ideal Harvard man. The undergraduates, no less, were inspired by his fellowship. They welcome their opportunities of joining in tribute with the circle of his deepest mourners...
...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...
...following editors to the board: Literary, Joseph Alger, Jr., '22, of Brockton, and Hillyer Blake Brown '21 of San Francisco, Cal.; Drawing, Nathaniel Choate '22 of Framingham Centre; Business, Ambrose Ely Chambers '21, of New York, N. Y.; Josiah Noel Macy '22 of Scarborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.; James Higginson Manning '21 of Dedham; Arthur Boylston Nichols, Jr., '21, of Cambridge, and Clarence Clargle Ryan '20 of Coggleskill...