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Despite the shut-minded opposition which all proposals on the subject met last year, Henry L. Higginson comes resolutely into the General Court with another petition dealing with the question of Sunday baseball. This time it is desired to legalize the playing of the game by soldiers and sailors who may enjoy turning to this healthy pastime during the odd hours on the Sabbath. The natural wisdom of providing these men with any and all sensibly planned opportunities for recreation, it is to be hoped will so appeal to the General Court that the legislature will not only admit...
...Government for the duration of the war and is now in France as a member of General Pershing's staff, holding the rank of major. The other members of the Corporation are President Lowell, Treasurer C. F. Adams '88, Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, Major H. L. Higginson '55, T. N. Perkins '91 and Bishop W. Lawrence...
Last but not least the characteristic likeness of Maj. H. L. Higginson '55, is most fittingly given frontispiece honors. The explanatory, illustrated introduction of the Major is thrice welcome just at the present time. Classes which have gone before know him; the three upper classes know him and 1921 may take the Illustrated's picture of him as a war time introduction...
...close of a meeting yesterday of Major Henry Lee Higginson, Cardinal O'Connell, and Alfred L. Aiken, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, Cardinal O'Connell issued a statement of which the following is an extract: "The times are extraordinary and call for extraordinary methods. Our soldiers and sailors will need everything we can do for them and it would be a crime for anyone of us to be indifferent to the tremendous consequences which would result to this country in the unthinkable event of our failure to do our full duty at this critical time...
Major Henry Lee Higginson, Hon. A.M. '82, President of the Union, and for many years identified with the University in different ways, is serving in this war by helping in the campaign for subscriptions to the Second Liberty Loan. Being a veteran of the Civil War he realizes what war means, and hence how necessary it is to raise a huge sum to carry on the work. He writes...