Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the eleven held last evening in the Trophy room, Arthur James Cumnock, 91, was unanimously re-elected captain of the eleven for 1890. The following men attended the meeting: Crosby, Hutchinson, Hallowell, Stickney. P. Trafford, Tilton, Upton, Cranston, Blanchard, Dean, Fearing, Lee, Saxe, B. Trafford. Mr. Higginson has invited the eleven to attend a dinner at his home on Common wealth Avenue this evening...
...following are the candidates for overseers, five of whom will be elected at the next monthly meeting: Andrew P. Peabody, of the class of 1826; Roger Wolcott, '70; Leverett Saltonstall, '44. George B. Shattuck, '63; Edmund Wetmore, '60; Fransic L. Higginson, '63; Lewis 8. Dabney, '61; Eliot C. Clark, '67; Robert Bacon, '80; Winslow Warren...
...open to the public, but are intended particularly for the students. Rev. Samuel Longfellow and Rev. Alexander McKenzie will conduct the services and several songs will be sung by the children of the Washington Grammar School. The programme is as follows: Song "Jerusalem the Golden," words by Comrade Higginson. Prayer by Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Song, "Mourir pounla Patrie," class song of '63. Oration by Rev. Alexander McKenzie. Decoration of the tablets by members of the post. Song, the words of which were written by a graduate, Air, "Fair Harvard" Benediction by Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Response. Music by Arthur M. Thayer...
...Tuesday afternoon "Colombe's Birthday" will be read at the Browning club which holds its meetings at Hotel Brunswick. Col. T. W. Higginson will read the lines of Ganceline, and Mr. J. J. Hayes the part of Valence. The other parts will be read by well-known students of the poet and the affair will doubtless be an intellectual feast to members of the club. The meeting on Tuesday will close the year's work of the society...
...present local option law is working successfully-Nation, Jan. 31, 1889; Christian Union, Feb. 28, 1889; (a) it educates the community which must enforce the laws-Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cambridge Tribune, March 9, 1889; (b) any defects in the present laws should be remedied carefully, not by revolutionary methods-Science, 9, 105; Professor J. B. Thayer, ibid...