Word: major
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...committee has 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...
...Major Russell Sturgis addressed the meeting of the Y. M. C. A., last evening...
...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...
...among the most prominent of whom are: Rev. Wilton Merle Smith. D. D., of New York; Rev. Frank Bristol, D. D., of Chicago; President Gates, of Amherst; Rev. A. J. Gordon, of Boston; Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull, of Phila; Bishop J. M. Thoburn; Anthony Comstock, of New York; and Major D. W. Whittle, of Chicago...