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...special program has been arranged for the Friday and Saturday concerts of the Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in memory of Major Higginson, to whom the orchestra owes its existence and its eminence...
Judge Frederick P. Cabot '90, president of the board of trustees of the orchestra, wishing that the two concerts may bring to patrons and to friends and relatives of Major Higginson the closest associations of his part in the creation of the orchestra, consulted Mrs. Higginson as to her husband's favorite selections. As a result the following program has been compiled: Unfinished Symphony in B Minor, Schubert Pianoforte Concerto, Brahms Fifth Symphony in C Minor, Beethoven...
...world would not be worth living in if one did not believe that there are as good men in the world as those who are gone and that those who are yet to be born will be not less good. But nevertheless we shall never see Henry Lee Higginson again...
...funeral services of Major Higginson yesterday noon Appleton Chapel was filled to overflowing with friends who had come to do homage to Harvard's great benefactor. In addition to President Lowell and the Board of Overseers, who acted as honorary pallbearers, the University was represented by over a thousand students, who assembled in a double line outside of the chapel...
...service, which was conducted by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, was marked by its brevity and the absence of an elaborate ritual. About 12.30 o'clock the coffin was carried by the nephews of the late Major Higginson as far as the door of the chapel, where their places were taken by the undergraduate pallbearers, R. W. Emmons, 2nd. '20, H. S. Walker '20, F. Workum '20, J. N. Borland '21. W. Davis '21, and C. C. Buell...