Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...
...Finance Committee. Thomas Stilwell Lamont, of Englewood, N. J., was second in the competition. The four men next in order of amounts collected were appointed as the committee to complete the collection. They are: James Reed Morss, of Chestnut Hill; Kenneth Campbell, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal.; Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, 2d, of Nutley, N. J.; and Alfred Wilson Douglass, of Brookline...
...have served in the American Ambulance Field Service march as a unit of the parade. All men who have at any time served with that organization and who are not enrolled in one of the other parading bodies are requested to notify Mr. Thompson, of Lee, Higginson Company, Boston, immediately, either by telephone or through R. McA. Lloyd '19, who may be found at the H. A. A. today between 12 and 1 o'clock...
Those who joined in making the gift are Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who gave Soldiers Field to the University; President Lowell, Andrew Carnegie, Eben S. Draper, James J. Storrow '85, George P. Gardner '77, Charles A. Stone A. M. '14, Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett, A. H. Bristow Draper, Francis L. Higginson '00, and the estates of Nathaniel Thayer '71 and James Stillman...
...Committee: Chairman, ex officio, John Archibald Sessions, of Northampton; Francis McNiel Bacon, 3d, of New York, N. Y.; George Storer Baldwin, Jr., of Chestnut Hill; Charles Buckingham Butterfield, Jr., of Chestnut Hill; Kenneth Campbell, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal.; John Cowles, of Des Moines, Ia.; Sherman Damon, of Brookline; Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, 2d, of Nutley, N. Y.; Alfred Wilson Douglass; of Brookline; William Vaughn Moody Fawcett, of Newton; Robert Lawrence Finley, of Albany, N. Y.; Alfred Harrison Geary, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.; Gerald Henderson, of Wayland; Amory Houghton, of Corning, N. Y.; Nelson Rulison Knox, of San Rafael, Cal.; Thomas...