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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
connection with the university; for not long after his financial misfortunes, Stephen Higginson was called from Bolton, where he had temporarily removed his family, to Cambridge to become the steward or bursar of Harvard College. He was deeply interested in Unitarianism and organized the Harvard Divinity School. His personal interest in the Harvard undergraduates of his day is shown by letters written to him by those who had gone to Germany to continue their studies, one of these being Edward Everett. In a poem read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, June, 1904, Colonel Higginson thus spoke of his father:— He planned a path to each professor's door And placed a gate at every footpath's end; Above each gate he hung a lantern o'er To which each pair of learned feet might tend. He planted elms, but then there came a frown, And stern economy soon cast a blight. The frugal college took the lanterns down, But left the trees to flourish as they might. It was probably during the famil