Word: abolitionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga;--or, perhaps, go out and walk miles...
Dean Ames of the Law School introduced the speaker, who began by showing that when free speech and free learning were prohibited in the South as a whole, they were preserved in the mountain districts of Eastern Kentucky by the abolitionist pioneers. Berea College was founded during the Civil War and thirty-nine years ago negroes were admitted. Its first work was to assist the process of reconstruction and to start the negro in his new life...
...Garrison '88, for four years an editor of the Harvard CRIMSON, died on Thursday at Lenox, Mass. A grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, he inherited great literary and legal ability. His father was Wendell Phillips Garrison '61, editor of the New York Nation. He was born in Orange, N. J., on May 4, 1867, entered Harvard in 1884, and was a member of the University for seven years, taking his degree from the Law School in 1891. He was connected with the CRIMSON all through his college course, being Managing Editor in 1886, and President at the time...