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The funeral services of Percy D. Haughton '99 will be held this afternoon in St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston. Bishop Lawrence will be the officiating clergyman. He will be assisted by Reverend Sherrard Billings '80 of Groton School, where Mr. Haughton prepared for the University.
The body of the great football player and coach arrived in Boston yesterday morning, accompanied by J. W. Farley '99, one of his closest friends and a former business associate, and several members of the Columbia football team.
Name Honorary Pallbearers
The list of honorary pallbearers which follows is composed of a number of Mr. Haughton's classmates and several members of the Columbia football team. They are: Arthur Adams, first marshal of the class of 1899, H. D. Scott '98, H. R. Hardwick '15, Philip Stockton '96, J. W. Farley '99, Walter Koppisch, captain of the Columbia football team, Dr. Paul Withington '10, assistant coach at Columbia, Albert Stickney '98, F. L. W. Richardson '99, Dr. T. K. Richards '15, C. L. Harding '00, Head Coach R. T. Fisher '12, J. W. Cutler '09, and James R. Krapp, Chairman of the football committee at Columbia.
All football practice for the University, Second, Freshman, and Dormitory football squads has been cancelled for this afternoon as a mark of respect to Coach Haughton's memory. In addition the flags on all University athletic buildings will be lowered to half-mast, and also the flag on the top of the Stadium during the game with Boston University on Saturday.
Burial Will Be at Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Music at the funeral will be by the full choir of the cathedral. Malcolm Lang of the First Parish Church at Meeting House Hill will play the organ during the funeral. Selections from Tschaikowsky's "Pathetic Symphony" and Wagner's opera "Parsifal" will be included in the prelude. The hymns to be sung are "The Strife Is O'er", "Now the Laborer's Task Is O'er" and "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand". Burial is to be in the family plot at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
Mr. Haughton's class, the class of 1899, will attend the funeral in a large delegation. As a mark of respect a class dinner which had been scheduled for November 8 at the Chamber of Commerce has been postponed until a later date
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