Col. Higginson Addresses Graduates

Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, of Boston, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Graduates' Club, in the Common Room of Conant Hall, on "Some Reminiscences of Literary Men." Colonel Higginson is well fitted to speak on this subject, as he has been intimately connected with some of the best known American men of letters, among whom the most prominent are Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Amos Bronson Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier h.'60, Wait Whitman, Wendell Phillips '31, Charles Sumner '30, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Longfellow h.'59, and James Russell Lowell '38.

Colonel Higginson fought in the Civil War, serving as colonel of the first South Carolina Volunteers until 1863, when he was wounded and forced to resign. Since that time, he has been a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and has been on the military staff of the Governor of Massachusetts. He has published many well-known books, among which are "Cheerful Yesterdays," "Contemporaries," "Reader's History of American Literature," and "Part of a Man's Life."

The talk will be open to all members of the Graduate School and their friends.