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...Speech by Major Higginson...
...Major Henry L. Higginson said that an opportunity for making a beautiful water-park should not be missed, and that such a park as would be laid out is needed to give the public at large better opportunity for outdoor recreation...
...debate was one of exceptional merit. In general the form of the speakers was passably good, though there were individual instances of awkward gesturing and clumsy postures. The whole discussion turned on the question of the possibility of enforcing the excise law. By the affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case...
...part Harvard men are bearing and ought to bear in social work, and by explaining the only way in which men should go into it: that is, with the spirit of equality and brotherhood. G.E. Huggins '01, the incoming general secretary of the association, spoke on "The Undergraduates," and Major Higginson on "The Graduates." O.G. Frantz '03, the new president of the Christian Association, made the last speech of the evening. With directness and force, he outlined the hopes and plans for the coming year, and especially the one preeminent aim of the association--that it may be so broad...
...that the Christian Association aims to be as broad as the social life of Harvard. The men who replied to the toasts were of varied religious beliefs, and their expressed opinions covered a broad field of ethical and religious thought. Yet the many-sided views of President Eliot, of Major Higginson, of Col. Hallowell, of Bishop Lawrence and the other men who spoke, coincided in the one fundamental principle, emphasized by Frautz as the chief aim of the association, that religion, if it is religion, means an earnest and purposeful life and active and definite social service--and that such...