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...apartments, rooming houses, and cell-like old dormitories who find the Union their one gathering place. Are they to eat in cafeterias, go to pool rooms for their billiards, play their bridge with the fourth man sitting on the bed? It was with such men in mind that Major Higginson donated the building. It is doubtless within the letter of his will to make the Union a freshman eating hall instead of a University club. But it would be a rank injustice, both to the memory of the donor and to those he wished to help...
...making known this fact the authorities explained that the step had been taken only after a careful study of the provisions of the will of Major Henry Lee Higginson, donor of the Union. Opposition to the proposal so to employ the Union has been based on an expressed wish of Major Higginson's that the character of the Union as an undergraduate club be not changed. The authorities answer this objection by pointing out that the will permits of change in view of the mediocre success of the Union as it is at present organized. It is planned that...
...following the lead of many another closed corporation, decided to let a portion of its stock pass to the public. Of 2,000,000 shares authorized, 1,400,000 are to be outstanding of which 540,000 were offered at $50 last week by Field, Glore & Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co. The remainder will be exchanged for present Marshall Field & Co. shares while 200,000 of the unissued will be reserved for sale to employes at a later date...
...officers and directors of the corporation include the J. P. Morgan & Co. Partners Thomas Cochran (hospital president) and George Whitney; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co; Frederic William Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. The doctors on the directorate are Albert Richard Lamb, Alexander Lambert, Alfred Townsend Osgood, Joseph Storer Vheelwright...
...Paul Moldenhauer gravely announced that if the match agreement were not ratified, the Reichstag exchequer would face a deficit of 273,000,000 marks by July, the delegates hastened to approve the agreement by a vote of 240 to 145. So lusty are the Swedish Match finances that Lee, Higginson & Co., Manhattan bankers for the company, thought it might well carry through its $125,000,000 loan without any borrowing on this side of the Atlantic...