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Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside at the exercises, and Lieutenant Morize will be the chief speaker. Officers, graduates and undergraduates of the University as well as University veterans of the Civil War will gather in front of University Hall at 12 o'clock, while the R. O. T. C. will form in front of Hollis and Stoughton Halls. On the arrival of the Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., the procession will start towards Sanders Theatre, escorted by the University...
This year Memorial Day will take on a new significance. It used to be the day consecrated only to those who died in the Civil War. From now on it will be even more a day on which we shall commemorate the sacrifice of our countrymen's lives in the Great War. We take pride in our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fell on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, and on each May 30 we are newly thrilled by the memory of those men who fought for Union and Democracy between 1861 and 1865. The pride and the thrill...
...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...
...lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs and obligations of the time. Let us hope that the appointment of so able a man as Mr. Hughes will be but the forerunner of official recognition of many other national leaders who heretofore have remained in civil life...
...half-century of unprecedented expansion and growth in wealth, we have reached a material prosperity unequalled in history. We may be thankful at such a time as this that American development has kept pace with the increase in our national needs. The Civil War strained northern finances almost to a breaking-point. It is the source of our strength that the far greater demands of the present can be met by the America of today. Billions are tremendous drains on any nation and involve the necessity of every economy and saving. But billions we have in America, every cent...