Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Lee Higginson's original purposes for founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra was to provide good music for the Harvard community. This is done through the Sanders Theatre concert series, but for the past few years faculty and regular Symphony Hall customers have made up almost the entire audience at these Cambridge concerts. Students find it impossible to get concert series subscriptions and very difficult to get single tickets...
...this small number. The bizarre attitude has now developed that the concerts are given for the faculty, and that there is no reason for the ticket distributors even to consider the students. But students are obviously a major part of the University community, and it is inconceivable that Mr. Higginson ever expected students virtually to be excluded from these concerts...
Besides the three officers mentioned above there were six other men with University connections who gained posts: James McGregor Burns '47 A.M.; Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; Roy F. Gootenburg '49; and Reginald Zalles, former instructor in Philosophy and Economics were elected to the State Board...