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General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, age 100, height six feet, beloved as "The Father of the Guards," author of Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life (1916), beamed exultantly last week at the news that the Grenadier Guards' minimum height requirement has again been raised to the traditional six feet after being lowered to five feet ten a year ago because six-footers of good fighting calibre were growing scarce...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '82 who had given the University Soldiers Field came to the field one afternoon with an elderly gentleman who was said to be going to California that night and would very much like to see the Harvard team practice. No objection was found and he saw Harvard carefully practicing the flying wedge. Several weeks later when he had reached California, he happened to be sitting in a cafe in San Francisco with another elderly man and unwittingly told the other the new development in Harvard's offense. The only trouble with his disclosure was that...
...newly-elected chairman of the committee, who is a member of the banking firm of Lee, Higginson and Company of Boston, succeeds H. L. Shattuck '01. The new members of the committee were chosen from nine candidates whose nomination was announced last June. The list includes...
...Byrne was elected to the Corporation of the University in 1900, to in the vacancy created by the death of H.L. Higginson '82. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1882, and a year later started practicing law in New York City. He has served as a regent of the University of the State of New York, and has been president of the American Bar Association. For his work with the American Red Cross during the world war, he was made an officer of the Crown of Italy and was also appointed a chevalier in the Legion...
...profits of almost $9,000,000. Last week in Manhattan a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. sold $10,000,000 gold debenture 7% Fiat bonds, a syndicate that also included the First National Bank, National City Co., Guaranty Co. of N. Y., Bankers Trust Co., Lee, Higginson & Co., Glore, Ward & Co., Marshall Field. Proceeds of the issue will be used to expand the great Lingotto works at Turin, where a new scuttler will be added to the Fiat farrow-a sleek, snub, pike-pig that will sell...