Word: majority
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...facts are that, through the generosity and artistic judgment of Major Higginson over a course of more than 50 years, America has been enabled to have one of the leading orchestras in the whole world. Competent critics from the Continent have often considered it to be the finest; undoubtedly there is no finer...
...Theatre, have generated a love for good music in the lives of innumerable alumni and undergraduates. There is little doubt that music is going to bear an increasingly more and more important part in bringing together all classes of our mixed community in bonds of mutual sympathy and toleration; Major Higginson will always bear an immortal crown for having been a pioneer in its development...
...Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Fellow of the Corporation, donor of Soldiers Field and the Union, and throughout his long and useful life friend and benefactor of the University, died on Friday night at 9 o'clock...
...funeral will be held today at Appleton Chapel at 12 o'clock. The coffin will be carried by undergraduates from Appleton Chapel to the hearse in front of University Hall through a double line of students, who will assemble to pay their last tribute to Major Higginson. This evening a memorial meeting will be held at the Union, at which President Lowell and others will speak...
...During Major Higginson's funeral this noon classes and lectures in all departments of the University will be suspended from 12 until 1 o'clock. The services will be conducted by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers, S. T. D., '99, of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge. The President and Fellows of the University will act as honorary pallbearers. The actual pallbearers, until relieved by the undergraduates, will be the nephews of the late Major Higginson. Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play during the service and the University Choir will sing...