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...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...
...terms in the Corporation, the last of which closed in 1890; and because the Corporation of that day knew no better example of the public spirit and courage which had made New England what it then was. The expectations and purposes with which the Corporation of 1893 elected Major Higginson a member of the Board were completely fulfilled...
What Major Higginson did for the social and athletic aspects of College life is so prominently before us in such concrete forms as the Harvard Union and Soldiers Field, that we often overlook the great influence exerted by his foresight and generosity in the development of music--that art which, although it appeals so elementally to all human beings, is often difficult to estimate, just because it is so elusive and mysterious...