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Sargent painting Staff photo by Jon Chase
Harvard News Office
At the Barker Center, a student is dwarfed by John Singer Sargent’s painting of Maj. Henry Lee Higginson. Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Civil War soldier, fellow of Harvard College – Higginson held ‘a deep and passionate wish that we should live according to our highest ideals.’