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Sever 11 was filled last evening by undergraduates, graduates and professors to hear Major Higginson speak about his gift to the college. President Eliot read the following letter, which explains itself...
...gift is absolutely without condition of any kind...
...Higginson will speak to the students about his new gift this evening at half past seven in Sever...
...chance this evening to show in a more acceptable way some of the enthusiasm which the celebration of last week has proved to exist. For many years there has been no event in athletics equal in importance to that which we take pleasure in announcing this morning. The gift of Mr. Higginson is unsurpassed alike in generosity and in the direct benefit it will bestow upon athletics. Through his munificence the problem of accommodation for athletic sports has been satisfactorily solved. Harvard is to have a magnificent field, as large as all the grounds now in use. The soil...
...donor of this magnificent gift is already well known to the public as a generous and public-spirited man. He is especially respected by Harvard men as a liberal giver in response to appeals from the university. Year after year he has made generous bequests in an unobtrusive way, until, even before his last gift, he stood among the first of Harvard's benefactors. Now he has shown his loyalty to the students' interests in a way that must make every man personally grateful. Tonight Harvard men will have an opportunity to make his acquaintance. No true son of Harvard...