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...Winsor will preside and the services will be opened with a prayer by the Rev. S. D. McConnell, D. D., of Brooklyn. The Glee Club will then sing the Harvard Hymn and Major Henry Lee Higginson will deliver the address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Mass. Regiment. At the close of the services the audience will join in singing the National Hymn, which will be followed by the Benediction...
...address is of special interest this year as Major Higginson served with Colonel Shaw in the 2d Mass. Regiment and was his close friend and comrade. 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 Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.- Monday evening, May 31, will be "Millitary Night," when the "New York Seventh Regiment March" will be played, also selections from "Simple Simon" and other productions of the Cadets. The programme will also include the "American Fantasy" by Herbert, the "Waltz Militare" by Ganne, the "1812" and "Tobasco" Overtures, and other appropriate selections...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.- Monday evening, May 31, will be "Military Night," when the "New York Seventh Regiment March" will be played, also selections from "Simple Simon" and other productions of the Cadets. The programme will also include the "American Fantasy" by Herbert, the "Waltz Militare" by Ganne, the "1812" and "Tobasco" Overtures, and other appropriate selections...
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...