Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890.

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Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82295797

Contains letters, primarily to Higginson, speeches by Higginson, and a commemorative book edited by Higginson and his wife Ida Agassiz Higginson.

2 v. (.4 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Soldiers' Field Park (Boston, Mass.)

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Higginson, Ida Agassiz.

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Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919

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Higginson was a Boston banker and philantropist; he donated Soldiers Field and Harvard Union to Harvard University. From the description of Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82295797 Higginson was a Boston banker and philanthropist. Higginson attended Harvard (1851-1852), but left because of poor eyesight. In 1856 he went to Vienna intending to make music his life work, but he returned to Boston...