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...portrait of Major Higginson was painted by Sargent during the summer, when the former was in London. As matters now stand the money received forms only about one-half of the sum required for both the portrait and the shield. A new committee will be appointed shortly and the work of collecting the remainder of the required sum will be begun...
About a month later, on January 19, the committee made it known that the primary object of raising the fund was to have a portrait of Major Higginson painted by Sargent, and expressed the hope that the amount raised would be sufficient for the portrait and also for a large Harvard shield to be set into the panelling above the Harvard fire-place. The canvassing of dormitories was begun and circulars were sent out to non-resident members, but it was found difficult to raise a sufficient sum for the entire enterprise...
...professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University; Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the history of art, emeritus, in Harvard University; James Coolidge Carter, for many years president of the New York Bar Association; Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador of the United States at the Court of St. James; Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Harvard University; Richard Olney, former Secretary of State; Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; James Bradley Thayer, professor of law in Harvard University; Charles William Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee; Horace Howard Furness, editor of the Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Works; Basil Lanneau...
...Given at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and one. (Signed) "CHARLES W. ELIOT, "HENRY L. HIGGINSON, "WOLCOTT GIBBS, "CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, "WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, [SEAL] "JAMES BRADLEY THAYER, "J. COLLINS WARREN...
...help of other teachers and graduates, have threshed out the constitution and selected the books. When the building was set on foot, three graduates at once asked to furnish the house. Mr. James H. Hyde of '98 has given us the library-both fittings and books. Mr. Francis L. Higginson of '63, and Mr. Augustus Hemenway of '75, old and proved friends of the University, have given us the furniture...