Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...address at the dedication of the Harvard Union, Major Higginson suggested that it might be found desirable to inscribe somewhere in the building the names of the Harvard men who fought in the Spanish War, and especially the names of these who died in the service of their country at that time. The idea was that as Memorial Hall and Soldiers Field have recalled to students the brave deeds of Harvard men in War of the Rebellion, so the Union might serve in a smaller, but just as honorable, way to keep alive the memory of the Harvard...
...Union on "The United States of the World" this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Stead has been for some time one of the most prominent advocates of peace in England, having been a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, and a firm disbeliever in the English-Boer war. He was also among the most prominent delegates at the recent National Peace and Arbitration Conference, held in New York City, last week. While there he spoke before the Society for Ethical Culture on "Peace Movement," and delivered addresses before the peace meetings in the Broadway Tabernacle, the Labor Meeting...
From 1889 to 1889 he held the positions of assistant and chief editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette, and in 1895 began editing the "Masterpiece Library of Penny Poets, Novels and Prose Classics." Among his writings are "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," "The Truth about Russia," "The Labor War in the United States," and "The Conference at the Hague." Possibly his best known literary achievement has been his founding the English, American and Australasian editions of the "Review of Reviews...
...last Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. Rev. John Hopkins Denison of the Central Congregational Church of Boston will conduct the service, and the following musical numbers will be rendered: "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," Whitney; "See Now the Altar," Faure; "The King of Love," Gounod. The soloist will be Mr. Earl Cartwright of the Cecilia Society of Boston...
After leaving Harvard, Major Higginson served in the United States volunteers in the Civil War, becoming major and brevet Heutenant-colonel of the 1st Massachusetts cavalry. While serving in the army he was severely wounded at Aldie, Virginia, in June, 1863, and later became one of the members of the firm of Lee, Higginson & Company, bankers, of Boston...