Word: governor
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Major Henry L. Higginson '55 representing the Corporation will call on General Kuroki early tomorrow morning and conduct the visitors to Cambridge, after first taking them to call on the Governor at the State House. At 1 o'clock the Corporation will entertain the visitors at luncheon in the Trophy Room of the Union. After luncheon General Kuroki and his suite will be escorted to the Faculty Room in University Hall by the Japanese students in the University. At 3 o'clock there will be an opportunity for members of the University to assemble in the Yard to greet General...
...evening a dinner and military reception will be given in honor of General Kuroki by Governor Curtis Guild '81 at the New Algonquin Club, and the following morning the visitors will leave Boston for the west...
Colonel Higginson fought in the Civil War, serving as colonel of the first South Carolina Volunteers until 1863, when he was wounded and forced to resign. Since that time, he has been a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and has been on the military staff of the Governor of Massachusetts. He has published many well-known books, among which are "Cheerful Yesterdays," "Contemporaries," "Reader's History of American Literature," and "Part of a Man's Life...
...reputation for his work in breaking up rings within the Democratic party in that state. Since his election to the bench of the New York Supreme Court in 1895 by both the Republicans and the Independent Democrats, he has refused the Democratic nominations for mayor of Brooklyn and for governor of New York State...
...appointed judge-advocate on the staff of General McLeer of the National Guard. He has become nationally known for his work in breaking up political rings within the Democratic party. In 1896 he was nominated for mayor of Brooklyn by the Democratic party and was later nominated for Governor of New York State, but he declined both nominations...