Memorial exercises in commemoration of the life and services of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. R. H. Dana '74 will preside and will open the meeting with a few introductory remarks on Colonel Higginson's work in the cause of good government in the city of Cambridge. Addresses will also be made by the following: Hon. Samuel Walker McCall, member of Congress from the eighth Massachusetts district -- "The Radical Leader in Peace and War"; Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead--"The Helper of Woman's Cause"; Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers h. '99--"The Citizen and Neighbor"; Professor Bliss Perry, of the English Department--"The Man of Letters." The exercises will be open to members of the University and to the public.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples.