Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Major Higginson...
...Believing that Harvard could achieve unity in social life as well as athletic endeavor. Major Henry L. Higginson. donor of Soldiers Field, granted a $150.000 financial bedrock for a building where "pride of wealth, pride of poverty and pride of class would find no place. Choosing a site proved the initial trial to Harvard University democracy: Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union's dedication...
Since Major Higginson intended the Union, like all democratic institutions, to be, self-supporting, its overseers rapidly constructed a system of officer elections and dues to sustain the clubhouse. The Harvard Union offered speakers, pre-game rallies, post-game dances, debates, and discussions to members. The restaurants and snack bar were open all week long, ladies were permitted on weekends, and professors-either guests or members-were welcome anytime. Since Cambridge was a no-license city in those days, students had to go either to a final club or to Boston for "exhilarating beverages." For returning alumni, the Union...
...paternal hand of the University maintained it through the twenties and into the Depression. But Edward Harkness, author of the House system, was responsible for the Union's final social demise. With the new Houses an undergraduate building was no longer needed: and the University, looking carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for the failure of his institution as a club, and promptly named its new freshman half the Harvard Freshman Union. No one was terribly sorry about this development-except one or two recent alumni who grumbled something about the $50 Life...
...Summer School Convocation, Sanders Theatre. Guest Speaker is John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, "The Revolution in China...