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Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside at the exercises, and Lieutenant Morize will be the chief speaker. Officers, graduates and undergraduates of the University as well as University veterans of the Civil War will gather in front of University Hall at 12 o'clock, while the R. O. T. C. will form in front of Hollis and Stoughton Halls. On the arrival of the Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., the procession will start towards Sanders Theatre, escorted by the University...
...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...
...will be hard for people to dissociate Major Higginson from this episode. It is most unfortunate, for there have been few men in America whose patriotism, whose virile modesty, has been so exemplary. At Harvard his name will be always associated with Soldiers Field, the University's athletic ground, and with the Harvard Union, the University's great democratic club and centre of college activities. -The Outlook...
...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...