"Reminiscences of Literary Men"

Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 spoke in the Common Room of Conant Hall last evening under the auspices of the Graduates Club on "Reminiscences of Literary Men," Colonel Higginson talked mainly of literary men he had met in his youth, and told numerous anecdotes about James. Russell Lowell '38, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Mr. Higginson and Mr. Lowell became fast friends when children. They were in the habit of going to various lectures together, and while at one of these Mr. Higginson became acquainted with Emerson.

In closing, Mr. Higginson recounted his first trip abroad when he met Robert Browning at the Athenaeum Club in London, and visited Alfred Tennyson at his country place near Cowles.