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...committee which is appointed to take charge of the fund is composed of President Lowell, Dean Briggs, William Cameron Forbee '92, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 and Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe '87, of Boston; Edward Sandford Martin '77, of New York, the editor of "Life"; William Cowper Boyden '88, of Chicago, and George Dickson Markham '86, of St. Louis...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Colonel T. L. Livermore, Colonel Logan, commanding officer of the Ninth Regiment, N. G. M., senior ranking officer among the guests of the evening, and Odin Roberts '86, president of the Harvard Club, will speak at the reception to be given to the members of the University who served on the border last summer in Massachusetts volunteer organizations by the Harvard Club of Boston this evening at 8 o'clock...
...that the hour was most inappropriate, and that the service was badly advertised, the fact remains that scarcely 75 men were interested enough to come to a meeting of this kind at which the speakers were the President of the University and one of her most heroic graduates. Major Higginson. And so the service-failed utterly of being the splendid and triumphant memorial which a packed Chapel would have made...
Another short address was given by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. In his speech he extolled the spirit, the bravery and the sacrifice of the men who gave their lives for a cause in which they thoroughly believed. He instanced several experiences in the Civil War to show the heroic character of a soldier who gives up his life in battle. He said, "These men have performed a great sacrifice. They fought because they loved freedom and hated oppression. Our country mourns the loss of their lives...
Professor Edward Caldwell Moore will conduct the service and Dr. Davison has prepared the musical program. President Lowell and Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will speak. The choir will give an anthem...