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John Randolph Burke Jr. of Milton was chosen manager of the Freshman football team last night after a six weeks competition. The assistant Freshman manager was Frederick Vanderbilt Field of Lenox, New York, and the second assistant manager, George Higginson of Boston. The three dormitory managerships were awarded to the next three men in the following order: Austin Lamont of Englewood, N. J., manager for Gore; Lawrence Hayden Duggan of New York for Smith Halls and for Standish, Oakes Ames Spalding of Milton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burke is 1927 Football Manager | 11/7/1923 | See Source »

...reality as a Coolidge--an ability that is far from failing him in his most recently published collection of essays and addresses. That this collection includes papers on such men as Dana (he of the "Two Years", fame), John Burroughs, James Russell Lowell, Emerson, and the late Colonel Higginson, should prove a sufficient guarantee of interest to those who know him; and a charming introduction for those who do not. While the article which opens the volume, an entirely human consideration of Erasmus' "Praise of Folly", is so admirable a proof that the Renaissance sage is by no means dead...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G, | Title: KINDLY, HUMAN VOLUME OF ESSAYS | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

...establishing the Union Major Higginson had the two-fold object of providing a club to which all Harvard men should belong and of providing a centre for the intellectual and extra-curriculum life of the University. Unfortunately neither object has been attained in full; the second has hardly been attained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TWO-FOLD OBJECT | 10/19/1923 | See Source »

...what of the other object? Here again existing conditions balk any complete attainment of Major Higginson's ideal; while the publications have their own buildings and the musical clubs their rooms, the Union can not hope to be the kind of centre that its founder conceived. But again there has been partial success: lectures, dinners, and committee meetings testify to that. There remains only the problem of the political and "activity" clubs which are anxious to find some centre. But in such cases, with their eyes always on the problem of increasing the club membership, those in charge have generally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TWO-FOLD OBJECT | 10/19/1923 | See Source »

...letter written in 1899 by Major H. L. Higginson Hon '82 urging the foundation of a club to help social life and hold together the students of the University" was read by Mr. Wigglesworth as the basis of his address. Characterizing this letter as the "charter of the Harvard Union", went on to tell how the Union had become the center of social life in the University, affording opportunities which it was impossible for any smaller organization to provide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL WELCOMES FRESHMEN | 9/26/1923 | See Source »

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