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...memorial meeting to commemorate the life and service of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 was held in Sanders Theatre last night, the eve of Colonel Higginson's birthday. Mr. R. H. Dana '74, president of the Cambridge Historical Society, presided. Mr. Dana spoke of the active life that Colonel Higginson led in the public service. His two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature brought out that independence of action and of thought that so characterized his life. Colonel Higginson was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 1888 and although defeated, his sturdy fight did much to prepare...
Memorial exercises in commemoration of the life and services of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. R. H. Dana '74 will preside and will open the meeting with a few introductory remarks on Colonel Higginson's work in the cause of good government in the city of Cambridge. Addresses will also be made by the following: Hon. Samuel Walker McCall, member of Congress from the eighth Massachusetts district -- "The Radical Leader in Peace and War"; Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead--"The Helper of Woman's Cause"; Rev. Samuel McChord...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...
Memorial exercises in commemoration of life and services of Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 in Sanders Theatre...
Public exercises in commemoration of the life and services of Thomas Went worth Higginson '41 will be held under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society in Sanders Theatre next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. R. H. Dana '74 will preside and addresses will be made by Hon. Samuel W. McCall, M.C., Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Rev. Samuel M. Crothers h.'99, and Professor Bliss Perry. The exercises will be open to all members of the University and to the public...