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Such a service has been arranged for this year by a self-appointed committee It will be held at eleven o'clock on the morning of Memorial Day in Sanders Theatre. It will be short and informal. Major Henry L. Higginson has consented to deliver the address, and the glee club will sing. Invitations have been sent to all Harvard veterans of the war who live in this vicinity, and it is expected that a great many of them will be present. Admission to the service will be strictly by ticket. Tickets may be obtained in due season...
...arranged to bring young Harvard and old Harvard together to honor the memory of their common brothers. The meeting is fortunately to be led by him to whom the present Harvard generation owes so much of its love and veneration for those who fell in the war, Major Higginson...
...that Harvard must have more room for exercise. The growth of the college puts the time not very far distant when Holmes Field and Jarvis Field will have to be used for other purposes than play grounds. Crowded out of its present quarters, athletics must go somewhere, and Major Higginson has generously provided the grounds on the further side of the river. It ought to require no more persuasion than the mere statement of facts to draw forth all the subscriptions which shall be needed for this all important need...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, President Eliot, Bishop Phillips Brooks, Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Rev. Edward Hall, Col. T. W. Higginson, Justin Winsor, Rev. William Lawrence, Edward Hooper, Professors, Child, Norton, Briggs, Palmer, Royce, James, Jackson, Kittredge, Greenough, Wendell, Lyon, Ames, Hill, J. W. White, Smith, Thayer, Toy, Perce, Taussig, Lanman, Phelps, Channing, Lane, Dunbar, Secretary Bolles, Hon. S. Lincoln, Rev. Percy Browne, Dr. D. D. Slade, Augustus Lowell, John S. Dwight, William G. Russell, Col. Henry Lee, Martin Brimmer, Geo. Putnam Leverett, Saltonstall, Waldo Burnett, Joseph Burnett, Lothrop Thorndike, Mr. Schlesinger, Frederic Cunningham, Dr. Wyman and Dr. E. R. Coggswell, Edward Burnett...
...additional has been received for prizes for students in the Semitic languages for the academic year 1891-92. From Jacob H. Schiff $1,000 for book for a Semitic department reference library. From Charles Fairchild $2,500 for the present use of the Geological department. From Henry L. Higginson $8,877.53 to pay for grading and other expenses relating to The Soldiers' Field. From the class of '79 an additional gift of $105 to be used under the direction of Assistant Prof. Taussig for the Pol. Econ. reading room. From Mrs. Benj. S. Rotch, $10,000 "to build and equip...