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...aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduate presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39, Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant, Henry W. Long fellow h.'59, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, and President Eliot...
...annual reception to new students of the University was held last evening in the Living Room of the Union. Dean Briggs presided and introduced the speakers in the following order. Acting Assistant Dean Yeomans, P. R. Withington '12, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, President-Emeritus Eliot and President Lowell...
...Major Higginson's Address...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 expressed the hope that the entering class would enjoy the life in the University and grow to be active men. It is a lamentable state of affairs when men have no definite goal towards which they are striving. You should strive and achieve success but remember that success does not depend upon money. The three essentials of a successful life are knowledge, application, and character. The world is looking for experts, men who do not waste their time, character, or money...
...hoped that all the new members of the University will attend this meeting, for by doing so they will come in closer contact with the high administrative authorities of the University. In addition they will hear Major Higginson, donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, speak...