Word: unionized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many decades the University has benefited from the unfailing and stimulating interest of Major Higginson. His gifts have been incessant, without price--all of them unassuming. The two of which undergraduates are most conscious are monumental: Soldiers Field and the Union. Both of these were given in memory of friends and comrades who gave their lives for our country, and endowed for the purpose of moulding young men in the frame of these same worthy heroes...
...Major Henry L. Higginson the University has lost a councillor and benefactor, the students a friend. Ever mindful of their welfare he gave them the Union and Soldiers' Field. Outside the University he created, and for years at his own expense maintained, the Symphony Orchestra. Without holding public office he was always quick to serve the public and unsparing in his denunciation of public wrong. Many will feel that a friend has gone from us, for he was much loved, because he loved much...
...University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because he was the intimate friend of Alexander Agassiz, a great naturalist...
What Major Higginson did for the social and athletic aspects of College life is so prominently before us in such concrete forms as the Harvard Union and Soldiers Field, that we often overlook the great influence exerted by his foresight and generosity in the development of music--that art which, although it appeals so elementally to all human beings, is often difficult to estimate, just because it is so elusive and mysterious...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Fellow of the Corporation, donor of Soldiers Field and the Union, and throughout his long and useful life friend and benefactor of the University, died on Friday night at 9 o'clock...