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...rowing committee, chosen by Capt. B. McK. Henry '24, and approved by the Athletic Association, is composed of John Richardson '08, chairman; R. F. Herrick '90; Major F. W. Moore '93, ex-officio; C. B. Wood '98, of Philadelphia; F. L. Higginson '00; Dr. W. E. Ladd '02; O. D. Filley '06; Delmar Leighton '19; R. K. Kane...
...that a club, founded on democratic principles and open to all members of the University, might do much to overcome social distinctions and to make the years in Cambridge more pleasant. It was for this purpose that the Union was established by one of Harvard's greatest benefactors--Major Higginson. Whether such a purpose is realized depends largely on the members who will take the opportunity to join before October...
...attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company to take it. Even then it had a scant sale, until its merit was recognized in England, and in a few years he became the American best known abroad. To come nearer home, our late benefactor, Henry L. Higginson, in early life studied music for several years in Europe, but finding himself unfitted for a musical career, came home, shortly before the Civil War. Severely wounded as a cavalry officer in the Army of the Potomac, he recovered only as it closed. He then tried an adventure in raising...
This dual function of the Union indicates its greatest problem. Major Higginson hoped that his gift might serve as a club to which all Harvard students should belong, but his idea has remained largely a pious hope. The Union has approximately 1500 members, of whom, about eleven percent are members of no other college club. It is for these men--in so far at least as they are not Freshmen--that the Union exists as a club and it is by these men that the Union is used--and used incidentally to a greater extent than the Harvard Club...
...Shattuck '68, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, and a practicing and consulting physician in Boston since 1875; Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, a general practitioner in Waltham since 1883 and an ex-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology since 1906 and president of the Medical Research Society of the American Red Cross in France...