Word: majors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announcement that Major Henry L. Higginson is to be the speaker at the Memorial Day services in Sanders Theatre and that he is to speak of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw is one which will please every one. There is no part of Harvard's history in which all are more interested or of which Harvard men are more prout than the record of the University in the late Civil War; and of all the Harvard men who took part in that war there is none whose memory is more honored than that of Colonel Shaw. Major Higginson is particularly well...
...annual Memorial Day service, at which Dr. Justin Winsor will preside, is to be held on Sunday, May 30th, at 4 o'clock. Major H. L. Higginson will make the address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts infantry. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor...
...Major Higginson served under Colonel Shaw in the 54th regiment and was his close friend, so the address is sure to be in the highest degree interesting and instructive...
Last evening, at the Hotel Vendome, the CRIMSON held a dinner to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. H. M. Williams '85, President of the Crimson Alumni Association, was toastmaster, and speeches were made by Major Henry L. Higginson, Mr. Lehmann, Dr. W. A. Brooks '87, E. H. Warren '95, and W. K. Otis '98. Poems were read by F. Winsor '93 and F. Curtis...
...Lehmann spoke in his usual vigorous fashion, referring to the real identity of the English and American ideas of true sport. He also emphasized the opportunity possessed by the CRIMSON in keeping the attention of the University centered upon those who actively forward its interests. Major Higginson, in speaking of the CRIMSON, referred to the inadvisability of jumping too has tily at conclusions. W. K. Otis '98 explained the desire of the CRIMSON to represent the whole University, and Dr. Brooks gave an interesting outline of the plans for the next football season...