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...assembled to discuss a question of great moment to the human race. The social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom...
...called forth the University Club scheme, is one into which every Harvard man should enter with whole-hearted enthusiasm. This plan merits attention because it is an honest attempt to meet certain well-defined needs of our university life. Whether or not it is the best solution of the problem, the problem itself is one to which we should devote ourselves seriously...
...time extend a like invitation to Harvard, Pennsylvania and Columbia. I send you the above memorandum of the action of the athletic council as well as that contained in my other letters of the same date, feeling the assurance that they will offer so satisfactory a solution of the problem confronting us all, that a conference, such as I was expected to call, may not be necessary except for matters of detail...
...references: North American Review, Vol. 143, P. 382; Vol. 147, p. 121; Vol. 135, p. 525. Forum VII, 678-682. H. W. Blair, "Temperance Movement"; E. J. Wheeler, Prohibition; Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition. Fernal: Economics of Prohibition; on Kansas: "Facts about Prohibition"; on Maine and Mass., "The Liquor Problem"- F. H. Wines and J. Koren...
General references: "The Liquor Problem," F. H. Wines and J. Koren; introduction by President Eliot and Seth...