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President.--Major Henry Lee Higginson...
...following will act as pall-bearers: President Lowell, President Eliot, Major Henry Lee Higginson h.'82, Dr. James J. Putnam '66, Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch '75, Dr. M. Broughton, Dr. D. W. Cheever, '58, Alexander Cochran, D. R. Fitz, Professor Thomas Dwight '66, G. A., Goddard '65, N. P. Hallowell '61, C. S. Minot '78, Dr. S. J., Mixter...
Owing to the death of Dr. Henry Pickering Bowditch '61, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Emeritus, all College exercises will be suspended from 12 to 1 o'clock today...
...Henry Pickering Bowditch '61, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Emeritus, died early yesterday morning at his home, Sunnyside, Pond street, Jamaica Plain. He had been in very poor health for the past five years. Funeral services will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 12 o'clock...
Soon after his graduation, Dr. Bowditch took up medical research work in Paris under the famous Claude Bernard, and later under Ludwig in Leipsic. On his return to Boston in 1871 he was appointed assistant professor of physiology. Five years later he received the George Higginson chair, which he held until his retirement in 1906, when he was made professor emeritus. In 1883, at the time of the dedication of the buildings on Boylston street, he was made Dean of the Medical School. As Dean he made the school one of the foremost in the country...