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...Henry L. Higginson has been chosen to succeed the late Frederick L. Ames on the board of directors...
...various lectures which have been given of late under the auspices of Harvard student organizations, notably Mr. Du Chaillu's lecture last night, and Colonel Higginson's address last Friday, have a significance and suggestiveness which do not appear at first thought. Doubtless they seem to very many of the students to have no special meaning beyond their intrinsic value. Yet it seems to us that these organizations, which have provided public lectures, have shown that they appreciate a greater sphere of usefulness than mere activity among themselves. Of course, the business of a Natural History Society must be primarily...
Those who came last evening to hear CoIonel Higginson lecture on Wendell Phillips enjoyed one of the most charming talks that it has been the good fortune of Cambridge people to hear this year...
...Colonel Higginson began his lecture by a definition of what was characterized as the "Boston Style" before the rebellion, and showed how this had become florid, almost turgid, because of its origin and developement from the firm belief of the Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent...
Wendell Phillips Club. Wendell Phillips and his Relations to Modern Oratory. Colonel Higginson. Sever...