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...Walcott and Mr. Henry L. Higginson have been appointed a committee from the Corporation on the Randall bequests to Harvard. They have placed the commission for the plans of the new dining hall in the hands of E. M. Wheel-wright '76, and there is every prospect of their early approval. The hall which is to bear the name of its donor, will be built on the vacant lot on Holyoke St., back of Dunster. It is intended to accomodate 800 students and will be run on the plan of the Foxcroft Club...
...reproduction of the monument to Col. Shaw is the frontispiece of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine for September. There appear also the address in commemoration of Col. Shaw which were delivered last May by Major Henry L. Higginson '55, W. P. Garrison '61, Wm. Professor James '69, and President Booker T. Washington...
Soldiers Field came into the possession of the university in June, 1890, as a gift from Major Henry Lee Higginson of the Class or '55. It came at an especially opportune time, as the athletic accommodations of the university on Holmes and Jarvis Fields had been growing inadequate for some years past, and there was, moreover, no room for further expansion in their neighborhood. Its location was also peculiarly satisfactory, on account of its adjacency to the Longfellow estate of nearly eighty acres, which had been left to the university some time before, but had not been utilized, on account...
...Major Higginson's gift consisted of about twenty acres of land, all on a higher level than the neighboring marsh land. It was given to the university with the hope expressed that it might be used for the present for athletic purposes, but without any reservation whatsoever, except it should be called Soldiers Field, in memory of Major Higginson's comrades in the late...
...June 10, 1890, Major Higginson formally presented Soldiers Field to the university at a meeting held in Sewall and attended almost entirely by students. Major Higginson's letter, in which he stated the purpose of his gift, was read by President Eliot, and the donor himself was then introduced. Then followed the memorable and impressive address which has since become so widely known, in memory of his comrades who had died in the war and in whose honor the field was named. These men, whose names are now inscribed on the Soldiers Field monument, were: James Savage, Jr. '54, Charles...